They agreed on the need for a political settlement and ending military action and foreign interference.

Libyan Government of National Accord head Fayez Al Sarraj came to see President Cyril Ramaphosa in his capacity as chairman of the African Union to discuss political and security developments in his Maghreb state.

They’ll meet again in Brazzaville on Thursday when President Denis Sassou Nguesso chairs the AU High Level Committee on Libya.

The heads of state of  Egypt, Chad and Algeria will also be there.

Since the 2011 killing dictator Muammar Gadaffi, Libya’s disintegration  has been a particular headache for the AU 

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This warning from the World Health Organization as three patients escape quarantine in the first city the deadly haemorrhagic disease has reached.

Head of the WHO emergency response Peter Salama says the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is on a epidimiological knife edge.

Seven more cases have been reported and the death toll is 27.

At least 150 people have come into contact with each case and all of these have be be vaccinated.

Salama explains: “There are three separate chains of transmission we’re following. Each one has the potential to expand if not controlled.” 

Three patients escaped from quarantine in Mbandaka the Congo River port upstream from Kinshasa and Brazzaville and downstream from Bangui.

Medicines Sans Frontiers says two of them have been found dead. 

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