Turhan Mildon, who married Alina Habba this summer, presents himself as a 29-year-old billionaire with ties to global leaders. His story has inconsistencies.

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US authorities tighten border rules as virus cases found across Africa

Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatment

The “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.

As the current outbreak reached 10,000 cases, with almost 5,000 deaths, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), compared the outbreak to the Covid pandemic, which first took hold in China before spreading to countries across the world, claiming millions of lives, and ravaging health systems and economies.

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Teacher badly injured in attack as mistrust of outbreak responders deepens

Epidemic becomes the most geographically widespread in history

Washington raises threat level as Nairobi records eighth case of highly infectious virus

The patient is related to a man who died in Nairobi last week – thought to be the country’s first-ever case

Award winning journalist and author Anjan Sundaram reflects on two decades of highlighting under-reported crises

The man, who contracted the virus in Democratic Republic of Congo, boarded a flight to Nairobi before dying in hospital

Experts deployed to the capital are on hand to assist with testing, infection control and awareness, in anticipation of imported cases