HOW THE UK BORDER FORCE ARE TRYING TO PREVENT VULNERABLE GIRLS BEING SUBJECTED TO FGM OVER THE CHRISTMAS BREAK

At 4am this Friday morning, officers from Essex police and UK Border Force set off for the Stansted airport as part of Operation Limelight. Limelight i..... READ MORE›

FINAL TEST RESULTS CONFIRM EBOLA VACCINE IS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

Before the recent West African outbreak, Ebola had killed about 1,700 people in four decades... READ MORE›

NEW EBOLA VACCINE 100% EFFECTIVE, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CONFIRMS

According to the study published in the journal Lancet, among the 5,837 people who received the vaccine, no Ebola cases were recorded 10 days or more after vaccination... READ MORE›

FINAL TEST RESULTS CONFIRM EBOLA VACCINE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

Final test results confirm an experimental Ebola vaccine is highly effective, a major milestone that could help prevent the spread of outbreaks like the on... 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›

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›

THE GAMBIA'S PRESIDENT URGED TO ACCEPT DEFEAT BY NEW GOVERNMENT

The gambia life goes on in banjul as yahya jammeh clings to power... READ MORE›

CASTRO'S LEGACY AND THE ENVY OF MANY NATIONS

In Mexico, youth literacy is around 98.5 percent, while adult literacy is at 93.5 percent ... READ MORE›

EBOLA NURSE HITS OUT AT 'BLAME CULTURE' AT PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND

Pauline Cafferkey criticises health body over botched airport screening process after fellow nurse Donna Wood suspended... READ MORE›

EBOLA NURSE DONNA WOOD COULD BE STRUCK OFF OVER CAFFERKEY SCREENING

About 14,500 people, including aid workers, medics, press and Sierra Leoneans, arrived in Heathrow during the Ebola crisis... READ MORE›

FINDING A TOILET IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD IS NO EASY TASK

India has the highest number of urban dwellers who do not have access to safe and private toilets - 157 million people... READ MORE›

WHAT'S THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND WHY ARE COUNTRIES BAILING?

The International Criminal Court came under fire again Thursday when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte became the latest leader to say he's considering leaving the useless tribunal... READ MORE›

WHY ADELE WAS RIGHT TO IGNORE BOB GELDOF AND BAND AID

It's time the likes of Geldof stopped asking us to give money, and like Adele, started donating some themselves... READ MORE›

STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES 'WORLDWIDE' TRAVEL ALERT

The last time the State Department issued a similar worldwide alert was December 2014... 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›

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›

EVERY 7 SECONDS A GIRL YOUNGER THAN 15 GETS MARRIED

Nordic countries sit at the top, while impoverished, fragile states such as the Central African Republic, Niger and Chad hold up the bottom... 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›

S LEONE VICE-PRESIDENT IN QUARANTINE

Nearly 10,000 people have died in the outbreak, the vast majority in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

NEW YEAR: CELEBRATIONS MARK START OF 2016

More than 100,000 people watched the fireworks display in London and other UK cities, amid heightened security... READ MORE›

THE SATURDAY PROFILE UN ENVOY DRAWS ON HER PAST IN SIERRA LEONE TO HELP ABUSED WOMEN

As refugees, they are at risk of higher levels of domestic violence at home and sexual harassment when they step out... 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›

S LEONE EBOLA WORKERS DUMP BODIES

Ebola outbreak sierra leone workers dump bodies in kenema... 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›

AMERICANS EVACUATED AFTER POSSIBLE EBOLA CONTACT

He had collapsed while volunteering at a hospital in the Port Loko district of northern Sierra Leone... 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›

GRAPHIC IMAGES UNDERCOVER FILM REVEALS ANIMAL ABUSE AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE

The country of six million has had almost 11,000 Ebola cases and 3,363 deaths during the epidemic, which has raged in West Africa for nearly a year... 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›

S LEONE HOUSES SEARCHED FOR EBOLA

Freetown has recorded more than 50 of all Ebola infections in Sierra Leone over the past two weeks... 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›

THE 'TRAGIC' PLIGHT OF MIGRANTS ARRIVING ON THE BEACH EACH DAY AMONG TOURISTS AND POSH HOTELS

Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis 55 has taken images of Syrian Afghan and Bangladeshi migrants coming ashore on the island of Kos in Greece every morning... 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›