Rwanda: Kigali - a Different Kind of City

The Chinese pair trailing me at the check-in line at Kigali airport looked happy to have landed in east Africa. A string of comments expressing restrained delight followed me all… Read more »

West Africa: Obama to Step Up Ebola Response As Businesses, Senators Press for More

President Obama will announce the appointment of a high-level military coordinator and a stepped-up U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak when he visits Atlanta on Tuesday,… Read more »

West Africa: CEOs Want Ebola Fight Stepped Up

Following is a statement from 11 CEOs of companies operating in West Africa, calling on the international community to step up the fight against Ebola and welcoming President… Read more »

Africa: Obama Commits 'Military Assets' for Ebola Health-Care Surge

The Ebola crisis in west Africa is " a national security priority" for the United States, President Obama said in an interview on Saturday. Read more »

West Africa: Ebola 'Racing Ahead' of Response - Obama to Raise at NATO

President Obama will discuss the Ebola emergency when he participates in the NATO summit in Wales this week. Read more »

Liberia: U.S. Stepping Up Ebola Support - Envoy

U.S. Ambassador to Liberia Deborah Malac has called for the lifting of travel restriction on countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in west Africa. Read more »

Africa: How Africa is Losing the Ebola Battle - Amadou Mahtar Ba

A combination of fear of the Ebola virus, weak public infrastructures in three of the world's poorest countries, and a slow response by the international public health community… Read more »

Africa: Citizens Call to Action on Ebola - Petition

As the Ebola virus becomes an overwhelming human catastrophe affecting public health, social institutions and and economic well-being in Africa, we stand in solidarity with our… Read more »

Liberia: People Power Is Changing Ebola Narrative

The young campaigners thronging the street were wearing mismatched white T-shirts on which they had scribbled the words "Ebola awareness".As they passed a church, a melodious… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Health Minister Confirms Ebola Deaths in Congo

Dr. Félix Kabange Numbi, health minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said on television Sunday that two deaths among a dozen suspected Ebola patients were due… Read more »

West Africa: With Better Ebola Response, 'Outbreak Would Be Over' - CDC's Frieden

As a fifth African country on Sunday announced Ebola deaths, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), left for Liberia, Sierra… Read more »

Liberia: Give a Glove - Pass It On

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West Africa: Outrage Over Global Ebola Response - Calls for Action

Imagine this choice. Your child has Ebola symptoms. You have no protective gloves to help keep you alive to care for her. But she needs comfort, so you wash her and wipe away her… Read more »

Liberia: Ebola Hits the Family – But Won't Stop Us from Helping

The Liberia Ebola Stories That Don't Get Told Read more »

Liberia: What You're Not Hearing About Ebola - Campaign to 'Kick It Out'

Monrovia's streets were buzzing. In my amazement that an air of normalcy seems to prevail despite the emergency measures, I paid little heed to buckets of chlorinated water at the… Read more »

Africa: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?

While a number of African countries have recently made some progress in improving the quality of life of their people, nearly as many are backsliding, according to the latest… Read more »

Liberia: 'You Ain't Know Ebola in Town?'

The kids chatted happily as they gathered around a community well, carrying buckets and jerry cans to fill with water for their households. They were in a buoyant mood, but it… Read more »

Africa: 'Insist to the World that Every Baby Born Will be a Promise Kept'

Mr. President, Director-General Dr. Chan, First Lady Dr. Christine Kaseba-Sata, Excellencies, ladies, and gentlemen. Read more »

Africa: 'No Excuse' for Newborn Death Rate

A series of papers published on Tuesday is laying the ground for concerted international action to reduce deaths among newborn babies - which reach their highest levels in… Read more »

Africa: 'We Can Save Newborns' - Melinda Gates

Amid a renewed push by a coalition of organizations to reduce high death rates among newborns, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation answered questions from… Read more »

Africa: 'No Child Anywhere in the World Should be Born to Die'

By a host of metrics, women and their children have been getting healthier in recent years. Between 1990 and 2010, the annual number of maternal deaths dropped from more than… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Hope for Kids in Kinshasa

Despite horrific abuses perpetrated on women and children, the atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rarely make international headlines. Read more »

Africa: Gates Tackles Prophets of Doom On Poverty, Foreign Aid

The American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bill Gates, has mounted a vigorous attack on prophets of doom who say that poor countries are destined to remain so and that foreign… Read more »

Africa: Africans Give Govts Failing Marks On Power, Water Supplies

Although two of every three Africans believe their governments are performing well in the fight against HIV and Aids, fewer approve of their delivery of basic health services and… Read more »

Madagascar: Plague Claims More Than 30 Lives

An outbreak of plague more vicious than the bubonic strain called the Black Death has killed 39 people in Madagascar, the government said, according to an AFP report. Read more »