The U.N. in Malawi has launched an urgent appeal for aid to deal with the impact of a record cholera outbreak that has so far killed nearly 1,450 people and infected 45,000.Local health experts say if urgent action isn’t taken to scale up the response,…

The death toll from a jihadi attack on a Burkina Faso army unit in the north of the country last week has risen to 51, military officials said Monday, after 43 new bodies were found.The military unit was ambushed in the Sahel region’s Oudalan province,…