Nigeria has declared a national emergency over a “strange epidemic outbreak” that has already left 15 dead and 104 infected by this disease, which can end the life of a person in just 48 hours. The Nigerian Senate declared an alert on January 29 for a “strange epidemic outbreak” in Oye-Obi, in the southern state of Bunue, which has already claimed the lives of 15 people and... 

Nigerian soldiers ride on an armored vehicle in Maiduguri, the capital city of the northeastern Borno State. The Nigerian Senate has approved a request by the country’s president to extend emergency rule in the restive northeast for another six months. Lawmakers in Nigeria’s upper house of parliament unanimously voted on Thursday “to extend the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and...