Kenya has confirmed its eighth case of Ebola just two weeks after the country detected its first infection, as the deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to expand. The virus has killed at least 4,000 people in DRC since May, with the disease now reaching an eighth province.
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A scientist leading the digitisation of hand-written climate records stored in an archive in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo, has revealed the true scale of warming in the Congo Basin, according to a study published in Earth System Dynamics. The records, many of which were written on paper before the 1950s, had been inaccessible to international researchers until now.