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Sierra Leone: Koroma Disappointed With International Community Over Ebola
Sierra Leone Government, 12 August 2014
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Monday 11th August expressed serious disappointment with the slow response of the international community towards the fight against the Ebola… Read more »
'Slow' Ebola Response Slammed
As the health infrastructure of West African countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus are stretched to their limits, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone has expressed disappointment at what he sees as the slow response of the international community to help curb the spread of the disease.
The emergency wing at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, the largest referral hospital in Liberia. The hospital shut down after some of its staff were infected.
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West Africa: Ebola Response Up but Huge Gaps Remain
UNIRIN, 12 August 2014
While Ebola treatment and containment efforts are gradually gaining pace in Sierra Leone and Liberia, there are still far too few health workers, contact tracers and community… Read more »
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Liberia: Ebola - President Sirleaf Bans Officials From Traveling
FrontPageAfrica, 11 August 2014
A week after Sudanese Billionaire Mo Ibrahim heralded her decision to stay home in the wake of the deadly Ebola surge in her country, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has… Read more »
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Liberia: China Provides Ebola Materials Worth U.S$1.7 Million
Inquirer, 12 August 2014
The Government of the People's Republic of China has donated several health materials valued at US$1.7m to boost up government's efforts to fight the deadly Ebola virus that has… Read more »
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West Africa: Ebola - Ecowas Official Dies After Meeting With Patrick Sawyer
Leadership, 13 August 2014
An ECOWAS Commission Protocol Assistant, Lagos Liaison Office, Mr Jatto Abdulqudir, who helped the late Liberian Ebola victim, Mr Patrick Sawyer, while in Nigeria is dead. Read more »
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Liberia: Ebola - My Last Day in the Isolation Zone
MSF, 11 August 2014
Cokie van der Velde, a sanitation specialist with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has been helping to combat Ebola in Liberia and Guinea. On Friday she… Read more »
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West Africa: Uganda Sends 20 Experts to Aid in Ebola Crisis
VOA, 12 August 2014
Uganda, which has a history of containing Ebola outbreaks, has sent 20 of its experts to Sierra Leone and Liberia to help curb the spread of the disease. The current Ebola outbreak… Read more »
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Liberia: EU Increases Aid to Contain Ebola
New Dawn, 13 August 2014
The European Union has increased its support from €8 million Euros to €11.9 million in its efforts to contain the spread of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This is the… Read more »
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Liberia: Experimental Ebola Drug Arrives Aug. 13
New Dawn, 13 August 2014
Inside sources in the Foreign Ministry are hinting the arrival of America's experimental Ebola virus drugs here in Monrovia today on a Delta Flight, following President Barack… Read more »
InFocus
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An Ecowas official who assisted the Liberian-American Ebola victim Patrick Sawyer in Lagos has died from the dreaded virus, raising the deaths to three in the country. Read more »
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After convening a committee to assess the severity of the ongoing epidemic in West Africa, the World Health Organization has called "on all countries with Ebola transmission to ... Read more »
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U.S. President Barack Obama says it is "premature" to send an experimental medicine - given to two Americans who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia - for the treatment of ... Read more »
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President Goodluck Jonathan says he will meet with the 36 state governors and their commissioners for health to discuss how to contain the spread of Ebola virus in the country. Read more »
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Nigerian Minister of Information Labaran Maku has debunked rumours that bathing with hot water and salt solution can be used to prevent the Ebola virus. Read more »
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The ministry of health in coordination with the World Health Organisation has sent 20 experts to Sierra Leone and Liberia to help curb spread of the Ebola virus. Read more »
