MSF offers limited help in DRC Ebola outbreak

Kinshasa - Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the leading organisation in fighting Ebola, said on Tuesday it could provide only limited support to tackle a new outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo as it was already overstretched by the worst ever epidemic.

Congo declared an Ebola outbreak on Sunday and announced plans to quarantine the area around the town of Djera where a high number of suspected cases has been reported. It is Congo's seventh outbreak since the deadly haemorrhagic fever was discovered in 1976 in the same isolated northwestern jungle province, Equateur.

Nigeria troops cross into north Cameroon after Boko Haram attacks base

Around 480 Nigerian soldiers crossed into Cameroon after Boko Haram militants operating along the border between the two nations attacked a military base and police station, authorities in Cameroon said on Tuesday.

The apparent retreat across the border may suggest Boko Haram is having some success at chasing Nigerian forces out of towns they are defending along the hilly frontier with Cameroon.

The soldiers crossed to the Cameroon town of Fotokol in the Far-North region after fighting broke out when the Islamist militants attacked a base and police station in Gamboru in neighboring northeastern Nigeria, Cameroon Ministry of Defense spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Didier Badjeck said.

Zuma must do the honourable thing - NFP

                                                                                             President Jacob Zuma

Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma must do the honourable thing and repay the money used for upgrades to his Nkandla home, the NFP Youth Movement said on Monday.

"Under the circumstances, the honourable thing that our president can do is to pay back the money that was used for the swimming pool and theatre, unless he is convinced that having such a luxury could add value to his safety and that of his family," secretary general Busi Tshabalala said in a statement.

Man trampled to death by elephant

Johannesburg - A man is believed to have been trampled to death by an elephant in the Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage Site in Limpopo, SA National Parks said in Monday.

Rangers in the western part of the park found the body of a Zimbabwean man, in his early 40s, on Saturday, spokesperson Divhani Maremba said in a statement.

I will beat corruption charges - Malema

                                                                                         Julius Malema

Johannesburg - EFF leader Julius Malema was confident of beating looming fraud, corruption, money-laundering, and racketeering charges against him, he said on Monday.

"I do not fear anything, because I know I've not done anything wrong," Malema told journalists outside the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. He was referring to his pending trial, to be heard from 30 September to 3 October at the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane.