NIGERIA

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shiite religious ceremony in Nigeria Monday. 20 people were killed in the attack.

One of Sierra Leone’s leading Ebola doctors has died from the disease, making him the fifth high-profile local doctor killed by the virus.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau mentions the girls for the first time since a video in May showed more than 100 of them in a rural location.

West Africa feels “abandoned” by the African Union, which legislators say has not delivered on promises to send help to Ebola-stricken countries.

Cheaper crude could undermine Russia's and Iran's foreign policy and push oil-dependent economies into recession.

The suspicion that health workers and travelers from West Africa face is not unlike the stigma endured by AIDS patients in the 1980s.

In Connecticut, a father has sued a local school district for refusing to allow his daughter into class over Ebola concerns.

A local government chief reportedly said that gunmen attacked villages in the Mafa area of Borno State between Thursday and Saturday.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health declared the recovery of Nina Pham, a nurse who contracted Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan.

Ukraine votes for parliament on Sunday. Right-wing extremists say either change comes at the polls, or they will revolt.

Gunmen allegedly stormed two villages in Northern Nigeria and took dozens of girls away. Authorities have not commented on the claims.

Map of airports screening for Ebola.

The vast majority of the world’s cocoa is produced in West Africa and the outbreak is starting to affect the chocolate industry's bottom line.

China executed 2,400 people last year. The total number of executions for the rest of the world was 778 in 2013.

India has been on high alert since the World Health Organization declared Ebola an international health emergency in August.

Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Liberty Medal for raising her voice against the denial of basic human rights and liberties.

The World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of the deadly virus after it went 42 days without a new case of Ebola.

A lawsuit over an oil pipeline built in the mid-1990s marks the first time London-based BP faces a UK court for its actions overseas.

The deadly virus has even played a large role in the beautiful game, perhaps postponing the 2015 Nations Cup.

Boko Haram has reportedly agreed to release hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by the terrorist group this year.

Ebola was stopped in its tracks by workers in two relatively weak health care systems. The U.S. can do it too.