ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE IN EGYPT - FRANCE 24

Also, how an international outcry forced the Sierra Leone government to reverse its ban on pregnant teenagers receiving an education... READ MORE›

CAN THIS EX-FOOTBALLER FULFIL LIBERIANS DREAMS?

The ex-footballer George Weah has been voted in as the president of Liberia. But will he be equal to the country's many challenges, asks Umaru Fofana... READ MORE›

'HE IS KING GEORGE': SOCCER STAR GEORGE WEAH WINS LIBERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

'He is King George' Soccer star George Weah wins Liberian presidential election... READ MORE›

GEORGE WEAH, FORMER WORLD FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR, SET TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA

The EU's chief observer, Maria Arena, congratulated the candidates and the Liberian people on a peaceful vote that generally respected constitutional rules ... READ MORE›

FORMER WORLD FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR GEORGE WEAH ELECTED LIBERIAN PRESIDENT

George Weah, former world footballer of the year, elected president of Liberia... READ MORE›

GEORGE WEAH SET TO WIN LIBERIA PRESIDENCY

Mr Weah, 51, will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, in Liberia's first democratic handover since 1944... READ MORE›

LIBERIA SET TO LEARN RESULT OF LANDMARK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Whoever wins will succeed the continent's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of Africa's oldest republic in 2006... READ MORE›

COUNTING UNDER WAY IN LIBERIA PRESIDENTIAL RUN-OFF

There has been no major incident to report of a technical nature and the voting was peaceful, noted electoral commission chief Francis Korkoya... READ MORE›

2017 REVIEW: MAJOR NEWS STORIES IN 12 PHOTOS

Under the leadership of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ECOWAS quickly reacted to Jammeh's poll cancellation and dispatched a team led by Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari... READ MORE›

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›

IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 YEARS TO CLOSE THE WORKPLACE EQUALITY GAP. HERE'S WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE.

It may take women around the world more than two centuries to achieve workplace equality, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum... READ MORE›

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›

AT LEAST 300 DEAD IN SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDES AND FLOODING[1]

Sierra Leone's national broadcaster announced late Monday that the death toll had risen above 300... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS FEARED DEAD IN MUDSLIDE NEAR FREETOWN

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, officials and witnesses say... 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›

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›

AFRICAN LEADERS HEAD TO THE GAMBIA FOR MEDIATION TALKS

West African heads of state to arrive in Banjul to ask President Jammeh to step down, according to Senegalese official... 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›

EXCLUSIVE WHY JOAN COLLINS CHOSE TO CONFIDE IN BRAVE MISS WORLD FILMMAKER LINOR ABARGIL ABOUT TEENAGE RAPE TRAUMA

Experts attribute that to fearful Liberians touching one another less, more safe burials of bodies and distribution of protective gear to health care workers... 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›

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›

EXCLUSIVE WHY JOAN COLLINS CHOSE TO CONFIDE IN BRAVE MISS WORLD FILMMAKER LINOR ABARGIL ABOUT TEENAGE RAPE TRAUMA

But he added that there were still, by some estimates, 1,000 to 2,000 new Ebola cases a week -- the bulk of those now in Guinea and Sierra Leone... 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›

BENIN, LIBERIA LEAD AFRICA IN RANKING AT MAIDEN GLOBAL ROBOTICS COMPETITION

Among the African contingent that ranked behind Benin and Liberia were Nigeria 25, Mozambique 29, Mali 30, Zambia 32, Sierra Leone 37, Cameroon 43, and Equatorial Guinea 50 ... 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›

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›

TELEGRAPH INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI OF NIGERIA

How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across west Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram?... 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›

EBOLA 'STABLE' IN GUINEA - WHO

Refused entry Guinea has not been as badly hit by Ebola as neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia... READ MORE›

WORLD AIDS DAY CUT GAY BLOOD BAN TO THREE MONTHS

But as Mr. Conde played down the outbreak, Ebola was steadily entrenching itself in the Guinean forest villages where it surfaced nearly a year ago... READ MORE›