Rebels in western Libya bide their time while hoping that an uprising in Tripoli will happen soon, reports the BBC's John Simpson.
It affects only children, causing them to eventually waste away but 10 years after being first identified, very little has been done to tackle Nodding Syndrome, writes the BBC's Andrew Harding.
Uganda opens its first treatment centres in the north of the country to help thousands of children suffering from a mysterious fatal condition known as nodding syndrome.
In the north of Uganda, thousands of children have fallen ill with a fatal, incurable disease known as nodding disease. Communities are starting to panic and some people are losing hope as the medical community struggles to either find a cause or a cure, as the BBC's Will Ross reports.
Scientists are baffled by a mysterious disease which has swept across parts of northern Uganda.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni urges people to avoid physical contact, as one person dies from the deadly Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala.
Algerian MPs pass a package of reforms that reinstate a limit on presidential terms and give the Berber language official status for the first time.
It is up to South Africa's parliamentary Speaker to decide whether the vote will be held in secret.
Norway attacks
Two Swedish women may be able to bear children using the wombs which carried them, doctors say, hailing the world's first mother-daughter uterus transplants.
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