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Jolly Tumuhiirwe, 22, in court last week The Ugandan nanny caught on camera horrifically abusing a toddler under her care has been jailed for four years. Jolly Tumuhiirwe, 22, pleaded guilty last week to assaulting the 18-month-old child in her care. The abuse was uncovered by the girl’s father, Eric Kamanzi, when he secretly installed a camera in his living room after noticing his young daughter was subdued and bruised. Shocking footage – later viewed by the court – showed Tumuhiirwe hitting the child viciously, throwing her on to the stone floor and then pressing her foot down on her small body. Mr Kamanzi uploaded the footage to Facebook, where it was shared by a friend, before going viral. It has now been viewed almost 30 million times, provoking a widespread debate about the state of childcare in Uganda. Tumuhiirwe claimed in court she had abused the child because she had been beaten by the girl’s mother. The case has led to calls for greater childcare...

The head of the UN Ebola response mission in West Africa has told the BBC there is still a "huge risk" the deadly disease could spread to other parts of the world. Tony Banbury declined to say if targets he had set in the fight against Ebola, to be achieved by Monday, had been met. The targets were for the proportion of people being treated and for the safe burial of highly infectious bodies. The UN boss was speaking in Freetown, one of the worst-affected areas. On Sunday in Sierra Leone's capital, bulldozers were clearing large areas for a new burial ground. At the clearance site, near a rubbish tip, car after car was arriving with bodies, and several hundred workers were digging graves.

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita says there are no more confirmed cases of the Ebola virus in the West African country after the last patient infected with the disease was cured.