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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›
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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›
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›
OBAMA DEMANDS $6BN FOR EBOLA FIGHT
However, privately, UN officials say the country that currently has the worst Ebola hotspots, Sierra Leone, is not coping at all... 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›
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›
SIERRA LEONE DECLARES EBOLA LOCKDOWN
Sierra Leone has the highest number of Ebola cases in West Africa, with more than 9,000 cases and more than 2,400 deaths since the start of the outbreak... 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›
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›
HOW CHINA'S TRAWLERS ARE EMPTYING GUINEA'S OCEANS
Trawlers took advantage of Ebola Illegal fishing in Guinea got even worse as the country was battling the deadly Ebola virus, according to a Greenpeace investigation... 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›
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›
EBOLA VACCINE SHOWS 100 PERCENT PROTECTION, STUDY SHOWS
She added that other Ebola vaccines were underdoing testing, and that a vaccine was also needed to protect against a second strain, Sudan... READ MORE›
ERISON AND THE EBOLA SOCCER SURVIVORS
23 2015 11 50 Refusing to live in Ebola's shadow Erison Turay and others in Sierra Leone found new strength and solidarity on the soccer field... READ MORE›
Guinea reported its lowest weekly total of new confirmed Ebola virus disease cases since the week ending 17 August 2014, WHO said... READ MORE›