A hospital fire has killed 11 newborn babies in a neonatal ward in the Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the west African country’s president announced just before midnight on Wednesday local time. “I have just learned with pain and dismay the death of 11 newborns, in the fire that occurred in the neonatal department of the…

OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso’s army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country’s borders. The announcement cited the deterioration of the security situation and what the army described as Kabore’s inability to unite the West African nation and effectively respond to challenges,…

DAKAR—Health authorities in Guinea are monitoring 155 people who may have been in contact with a confirmed case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday. The Marburg case, which the WHO said was the first in West Africa, was confirmed in Gueckedou…