MALIAN ARMY WITHDRAWS FROM KEY TESSALIT MILITARY CAMP. (PHOTO).

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 Malian army withdraws from key Tessalit military camp: sources Mali’s army and its Russian mercenary allies have surrendered Camp Tessalit, a strategic military post in the north, multiple sources told the AFP news agency on Friday. An official from the Tuareg-led separatist group claimed soldiers and mercenaries at the camp had "surrendered", following a fierce fight over the weekend. Simultaneous attacks in Mali by militants linked to Al Qaeda and separatist Tuareg rebels on April 25 showed how fighters ​from different groups with different goals were able to strike at the heart of the West African country's military government. Gunfire and explosions were reported in the capital Bamako and around a large military base outside the capital, as well as Gao and central areas, as gunfire continuing in the northern city of Kidal. Defence minister Sadio Camara was killed at his residence in Kati, a garrison town near the capital, Bamako, following the fierce weekend fighting...

A WOMAN DIED OF EBOLA VIRUS,YESTERDAY IN LIBERIA.

                 According to health officials,a woman has died of Ebola in Liberia,months after the West African nation was declared free of the virus and weeks after neighbouring Guinea also recorded a new flare-up.The woman was brought to a clinic in Paynesville,just east of the capital Monrovia after falling ill and was later transferred to a hospital in the city.She died on thursday.''A young lady in her early thirties died of Ebola yesterday at the Redemption Hospital''.Liberia was declared free of active Ebola transmission in January,having passed 42 days,twice the length of the virus's incubation period without a new case.While the World Health Organisation said this week that West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes an international public health risk,the region has continued to see small flare ups even after countries received the all clear.One more photo below.                                                  

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