Possible Clues:

• African type of disease one has repeatedly escaped
• Disease, one repeatedly eradicated from North Africa
• African finishing at end of month repeatedly
• Popular carpet type
• North African native
• Tropical disease one's always kept away from North African
• N African pair of half-hearted porters?
• North African perhaps bitter about return of British
• North African porter, perhaps, half-heartedly doubling up
• Black king, repeatedly, of African people