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EBOLA: SURVIVORS FACE HEALTH COMPLICATIONS AMID RED CROSS SCANDAL
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Barely two years after West African nations defeated a deadly Ebola scourge, they are confronting a new epidemic corruption... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE PEACE DIAMOND NETS $6.5 MILLION IN AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR WEST AFRICAN NATION
The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, though the 113 million sector is plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›
ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST DIAMONDS FETCHES $6.5 MILLION TO DEAL WITH SMUGGLERS IN THE WEST AFRICAN NATION
The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, but the multi-million dollar sector is still plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›
GIANT 'PEACE DIAMOND' SELLS FOR $6.5M
A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for 6.5m ?4.8m ... READ MORE›
RED CROSS ADMITS EBOLA CASH LOST TO FRAUD
An investigation by Red Cross auditors has revealed that in Liberia 2.7m disappeared in fraudulently overpriced supplies, or in salaries for non-existent aid workers... READ MORE›
LIBERIA SET TO VOTE IN POLL TO CHOOSE ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF SUCCESSOR
Liberians are set to go to the polls to choose a successor to Africa's first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf... READ MORE›
CHINA IS A DEPENDABLE FRIEND TO SIERRA LEONE, SAYS PRESIDENT KOROMA
President Koroma entering the Chinese Ark Peace Hospital ship Sierra Leone's Preside... READ MORE›
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ONCE TIME'S 'PERSON OF THE YEAR,' AN EBOLA FIGHTER DIES IN CHILDBIRTH DUE TO STIGMA OF VIRUS
More than 11,000 people died in the Ebola outbreak, although 17,000 who contracted the virus survived... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE APPEALS FOR URGENT HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS
Paolo Conteh, the interior minister, told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remained missing... READ MORE›
EBOLA OUTBREAK DECLARED IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AFTER THREE DIE
Thousands more survivors have been left with long-term health problems and Liberia was only declared free of active Ebola virus transmission last June... READ MORE›
Anyone arriving from affected West African countries without having had confirmed contact with Ebola victims will be subject to monitoring by public health officials... READ MORE›
EBOLA OUTBREAK DECLARED IN NORTHEAST DR CONGO
In June 2016, WHO declared Liberia free of active Ebola virus transmission... READ MORE›
West Africa is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history and more than 2,000 people have died... READ MORE›
Abby Haglage in the Daily Beast says Dr Spencer's case could affect Ebola patients worldwide - by deterring would-be volunteers from travelling to West Africa to help... READ MORE›
EGYPT S GLOBAL TELECOM TO SELL DJEZZY MAJORITY STAKE FOR 2.6 BILLION
Unlike in Sierra Leone and Guinea, some noted, Ebola cases in Liberia were disproportionately concentrated in the urban setting of Monrovia... READ MORE›
EBOLA DRUG CLINICAL TRIALS TO START
Trials One trial involves using the blood of recovered Ebola patients to treat sick people in the Guinean capital Conakry... READ MORE›
CANADA VISA BAN HITS WEST AFRICA STATES
Ebola crisis canada visa ban hits west africa states... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS
In Sierra Leone, the hardest hit of any nation during the Ebola outbreak, nearly 4,000 people died from the disease altogether 14,000 were infected... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF DISEASE
Dr Oliver Johnson, from the King's Sierra Leone partnership, worked at an Ebola clinic in Freetown, and has strong links with medical professionals there... READ MORE›
NEW CASE EMERGES IN SIERRA LEONE
Health officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the West Africa outbreak over... READ MORE›
THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH WITH EBOLA
At this point, considering the contact she had with someone with Ebola, health workers said she is most likely very sick, perhaps even dead... READ MORE›
LIBERIA IS FREE OF EBOLA, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Liberia is free of Ebola after going 42 days without any new cases, the World Health Organization WHO announced Saturday... READ MORE›
U.S. UNIFORMED OFFICERS TO TREAT EBOLA PATIENTS IN LIBERIA
Public Health Service is not technically part of the armed forces, its members look very much like military personnel, wearing uniforms similar to U... READ MORE›
WHO CRISIS TEAM HOLDS EBOLA TALKS
Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›
Dr Craig Spencer A doctor recently returned from Guinea is in isolation at a New York city hospital... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE IS FREE OF EBOLA, 18 MONTHS AND 11,000 DEATHS AFTER OUTBREAK
NAIROBI -- About a year and a half after it emerged, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has officially ended... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE EBOLA NURSES ON STRIKE
The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
AFRICA SETS UP $28.5M CRISIS FUND
Of the West African countries hit by the 11-month outbreak, Liberia has seen the most deaths... READ MORE›
NEW EBOLA CASE IS DISCOVERED IN LIBERIA
The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free on May 9 a landmark moment in the country which has suffered more deaths from the epidemic than any other... READ MORE›
TESTS SHOW NEW EBOLA VACCINE IS 'HIGHLY EFFECTIVE'
Pharmaceutical companies only agreed to develop Ebola vaccines after the West African epidemic spiraled out of control last year, affecting thousands of people... READ MORE›
DRUGMAKERS TO JOIN FORCES TO MAKE MILLIONS OF EBOLA VACCINE DOSES
Europe is also expected to announce 200 million euros 250 million of funding to develop new Ebola vaccines, drugs and diagnostic tests, sources said on Wednesday... READ MORE›
VACCINE SUCCESS HOLDS HOPE FOR END TO DEADLY SCOURGE OF EBOLA
That left the study in Guinea, where Ebola is still infecting new victims, as the only real hope for demonstrating the efficacy of a vaccine... READ MORE›
GENOME STUDIES SHOW HOW EBOLA SPREAD INITIALLY
It has continued to be among the versions of the virus propagating in Guinea and later in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
RE-EMERGENCE OF EBOLA IN LIBERIA REMAINS A MYSTERY
The six new infections in Liberia since June 21 include two deaths... READ MORE›
GUINEA LAST NATION WITH EBOLA MAY SOON BE DECLARED FREE OF VIRUS
A Scottish nurse became critically ill last month after having recovered from Ebola, which she contracted doing charity work in Sierra Leone nearly a year ago... READ MORE›
FINAL TEST RESULTS CONFIRM EBOLA VACCINE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
Scientists have struggled to develop an Ebola vaccine over the years, and this is the first one proven to work... READ MORE›
EBOLA EPIDEMIC FUELLED BY 'SUPER-SPREADERS': STUDY
Most of the people who were infected with Ebola in the 2014 West Africa epidemic contracted the viral disease through super-spreaders, researchers say... READ MORE›