Three Ebola patients left a treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo after their families demanded to take them to church, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The BBC reports that two of the patients later died, while the third returned to the centre in the city of Mbandaka.

This presents a new challenge for health workers battling to stop the spread of the contagious disease, says the BBC's Anne Soy in DR Congo.

The latest round of peace talks for South Sudan has ended without a deal being reached.

The East African regional body, Igad, had proposed a power sharing agreement with three new positions of vice president - one going to the exiled rebel leader, Riek Machar.

A suspected cholera outbreak has claimed 12 lives in Mubi North and Mubi South Local Government Areas of Adamawa state, according to an official of the state Ministry of Health. The Head of Emergency Operation Centre and Director, Public Health in the ministry, Dr Bwalki Dilli, made this known to newsmen in Yola, the state capital.

Three years after Tunisia was hit by a series of jihadist attacks, the country's tourism industry has finally undergone "real recovery".

According to Tourism Minister Selma Elloumi Rekik, who spoke with news agency AFP, revenue had increased a third in the first months of 2018 - and tourist numbers rose to their highest levels since 2014.

The country saw a significant drop in numbers following the deadly attacks on a museum in the capital Tunis, and then a beach hotel in Sousse.

A criminal gang in South Africa which kidnapped a teenage boy on Sunday is demanding a ransom in Bitcoin cryptocurrency of nearly 120,000, dollars police said. Police spokesperson Leonard Hlathi said, Katlego Marite, 13, was dragged into a car while playing with two friends near his home in Witbank, a town in the eastern province of Mpumalanga, on Sunday afternoon.

The United Nations on Tuesday urged Algeria to stop rounding up and expelling sub-Saharan migrants, highlighting an influx of immigrants from Mali and Niger that Algeria says it needs U.N. help to address.

Hassen Kacimi, a senior official at Algeria’s Interior Ministry, told Reuters on Saturday that Algeria had called for help from the international community, while the United Nations had done little to save the migrants.

U.N. spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva that deportations and expulsions have increased markedly since the second half of 2017, and a U.N. human rights team went to Niger to investigate this month.