Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed over 1,000 people

France 24 reports that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has crossed a devastating threshold, with more than one thousand lives now lost. Euronews, covering the same outbreak, notes that the World Health Organization believes the real toll could be two to four times higher than the official count. The same France 24 bulletin also looks at Kenya, where human rights groups warn that political "goons" are increasingly being deployed to disrupt rallies ahead of elections next year, and at Senegal, where the famous Pink Lake is slowly regaining its iconic colour four years after floods threatened its unique ecosystem. Ebola, a viral hemorrhagic fever that has struck Congo repeatedly over the past five decades, remains one of the region's most persistent public health emergencies.

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