Liberia: Ebola Survivors Network Eases Transition Home

Josephine Karwah held back tears as she recounted being abandoned by friends and neighbors. The twenty-nine-year-old had contracted Ebola while taking care of her sick parents.… Read more »

Liberia: Ebola - While World Waited, Liberians Acted

Ebola hit close to home – hard – as it reached its peak in 2014. Two members of my church - one a nun and the other a social worker who had been under 21-day quarantine… Read more »

Liberia: The Ebola Stories That Don't Get Told

International news reports about Liberia left the impression of overwhelming irrationality in response to the Ebola crisis – an impression that endures among both policy… Read more »

Liberia: 'Pulling Together' After Ebola & Economic Downturn – Commerce Minister

When Axel Addy was tapped by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to become Liberia's Minister of Commerce and Industry three years ago, after almost a year as deputy minister, the… Read more »

West Africa: Late, Slow and Wholly Inadequate – the Global Ebola Response

Dr. Samuel Kargbo and his colleagues in Sierra Leone's health ministry were in despair. Read more »

Liberia: New Disease Control Center to Develop Ebola Response Model

"By this time last year we were down in the trenches", recalled Winnie Scott-McDonald, the Administrator of Liberia's largest referral hospital, the John F. Kennedy Medical Center.… Read more »

West Africa: Presidents Appeal for Post-Ebola Aid Ahead of Obama Talks

The leaders of the West African countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak of the past year have called on the international community to support a recovery plan which will… Read more »

West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Presidents Call for Post-Ebola Recovery Plan

Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Alpha Conde of Guinea and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone appeal for international support in five key areas for a common economic… Read more »

Ghana/Guinea: Guinea Overcome Ebola Stigma to Shine at Afcon

Guinea have overcome a lot to reach the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup, so much in fact that they might feel it is written in the stars that they should advance to this… Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica's Most Read Stories of 2014 (Includes Sex)

The abuses of Nigeria's Boko Haram militants, especially the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, and the outbreak of Ebola in west Africa dominate the list of developing news… Read more »

West Africa: Why TIME Tapped Ebola Fighters

"The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight." That's why TIME named Ebola Fighters as the Person of the Year 2014,… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Mobile Tech Fights Freetown Health Shocks

"The phone rang and I heard Isatu's cheery voice," said Moiyattu Banya, who co-founded the Girls Empowerment Summit Sierra Leone two years ago. "She was flashing me." Read more »

West Africa: 'Huge Risk' of Ebola Spreading, UN Warns

"There is a huge risk to the world that Ebola will spread," the head of UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Tony Bunbury, warned in an interview with the BBC. He said… Read more »

Africa: The Economics of Pro-Poor Health Policy

West Africa's Ebola crisis highlights the need for regional bodies such as the Southern African Development Community to cooperate to facilitate access to medicines by the poor,… Read more »

Liberia: Liberia Keeps Its Foot on the Pedal to End Ebola

The incidence of reported Ebola cases is no longer increasing nationally in Liberia, enabling the United States government to consider scaling back the number of Ebola Treatment… Read more »

Liberia: Journalists Pile On to Bash Ebola-Fighting Doctor

This is a story about an American physician many in Liberia regard as a hero. It is about his volunteer group, called Heartt – Health Education and Relief through Teaching… Read more »

Africa: Paving a United Path from a Deadly Disease

With close to 5,000 deaths and nearly 10,000 reported cases since last December, the current outbreak of Ebola has exposed both the weaknesses of our health care systems and our… Read more »

Africa: Creative Young Innovators Need Schools

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, tells AllAfrica's Tami Hultman why and how young Africans can drive the continent and its… Read more »

Mali: Mali Confirms New Case of Ebola

Officials in Mali have confirmed the country's second case of Ebola, the BBC is reporting. Read more »

West Africa: Top U.S. Official Visits Ebola-Hit Nations

The highest-ranking American government official yet to visit Ebola-hit nations has criticised the international response to the crisis and moved to encourage Americans to… Read more »

Africa: Ebola Cases Now Exceed 10,000

An overview of the current state of Ebola infections is provided by excerpts from the October 25 situation report of the World Health Organization's Ebola Response Roadmap: Read more »

Africa: Woman Attacked in Rome Over Ebola Fears

A woman from Guinea has reportedly been attacked by angry bus passengers who told her she was infected by Ebola and had to get off, according to media reports. Read more »

Africa: How I Could Have Brought Ebola to Washington

In September, I spent time with an American woman who had recently been in Lofa County, Liberia, an Ebola hot spot bordering the village in Guinea where the first case was… Read more »

Liberia: Long-term Cure for Ebola - Sirleaf

As the Ebola nightmare continues in Liberia and as we battle to contain the epidemic, it is important to look beyond the immediate crisis. Many more lives will be lost before this… Read more »

Nigeria: Ebola Outbreak 'Defeated' in Nigeria

An excerpt from an address on October 19 by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to its Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean: Read more »