UN General Secretary Mr .Ban To Convene Meeting Of World Leaders On Tackling Ebola Outbreak
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced he will convene a meeting of world leaders this week on a response to the Ebola outbreak as...
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No Ebola Travel Ban In West Africa, Suggests UN Agency
The World Health Organisation (WHO) suggested there should be no ban on travel or trade with countries affected by an Ebola outbreak outbreak in West...
Sierra Leone Ends Ebola Lockdown
Freetown, Sierra Leone Frustrated residents complained of food shortages in some neighborhoods of Sierra Leone’s capital on Sunday as the country reached the third and...
Sierra Leone In Lockdown Amid Fears Of Blowout To 500,000 Ebola Infections In West Africa
A woman suspected of being infected with Ebola is assisted by health workers to...
UN General Assembly Underlines ‘Strong Commitment’ To Bolster Response To Ebola Outbreak
Passengers about to depart from Lagos airport, Nigeria, are being checked for their body temperature to make sure they don’t have fever, one symptom of...
Top American Epidemiologist Arrives in Liberia
A high-level delegation from an international social justice and health organization, Partners in Health (PIH), is in the country to hold discussions with relevant partners...
UN Security Council To Hold Emergency Meeting On Ebola Crisis
A health care worker disinfecting a taxi in Liberia at an Ebola treatment centre. Photo: WHO/R. Sørensen The United Nations Security Council will hold an...
Libya Closer To Brink Of Protracted Conflict And Strife.
Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino Léon. UN Photo/Evan Schneider Three years after the fall of their former...
Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment, a government official said Sunday,...
Broward Shudders As Giant African Snails Cross Border From Miami-Dade
By RICK STONE BAG OF TROUBLE: A state worker shows the African land snails she found in a yard in the Broward County town of Davie....
Ebola Could Hit 15 Countries Across Africa
Study of how disease has spread in past finds 22million people may be at risk of infection In a world first, Oxford scientists have created...
Maternal Health Activists Battle Awaits Supreme Court Verdict
By Andante Okanya KAMPALA – A petition by maternal health activists seeking to compel Government to provide essential adequate kits in referral hospitals for the mothers’...
Bills Gates’ Foundation Donates Record $50million To Fight Ebola In West Africa
‘By fighting Ebola now, we can make sure it doesn’t become an endemic in [West] Africa,’ the Microsoft co-founder tweeted on Wednesday. The donation is...
Bills Gates' Foundation Donates Record $50million To Fight Ebola In West Africa
‘By fighting Ebola now, we can make sure it doesn’t become an endemic in [West] Africa,’ the Microsoft co-founder tweeted on Wednesday. The donation is...
‘Merciless,’ Spread Of Ebola In Liberia Must Be Stopped In Its Tracks, Security Council Told
Special Representative Karin Landgren briefs the Security Council on the spread of Ebola in Liberia. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Liberia is facing its greatest threat since...
UN Health Agency Convenes Meeting To Weigh Ebola Therapies, Vaccines
Local construction workers at the Island Clinic, one of the five Ebola treatment centres with 100 beds that will be opened in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo:...
Deadly Ebola hits 5th West African Nation
DAKAR – The Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,500 people across West Africa spread to a fifth country in the region on Friday...
WHO Shuts Sierra Leone Lab After Worker Infected with Ebola
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola,...
Flight Restrictions Hamper Ability To Battle Ebola – UN
The United Nations today cautioned against flight restrictions into and out of Ebola-affected countries in West Africa, saying such limitations were preventing the transport of...
African Coffee Becoming All The Rage
BARRISTA Stanley Ngubeni presides over the counter at Braamfontein’s Double Shot Coffee and Tea. “I got employed here last year in August … I had...