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West Africa:
Powerful Effects of Ebola Outbreak Felt Outside Worst-Affected Countries, UN Report Finds
UN News, 12 March 2015
The effects of Ebola, which has infected nearly 24,000 people and killed nearly 10,000, mainly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, extend beyond the people who suffer from the… Read more »
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Liberia:
Ebola - Liberia's Long Road to Recovery
UNIRIN, 4 March 2015
Liberia has lifted nationwide curfews and reopened its land borders with key trading partners Sierra Leone and Guinea, but a full recovery from the economic impact of the Ebola… Read more »
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Africa:
Helen Clark - Speech On the Ebola Recovery Assessment At the High Level Ebola Conference
UNDP, 3 March 2015
Today Is an important day for international cooperation with the countries affected by Ebola. Now is the time to lay the foundations for sustained economic and social recovery from… Read more »
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Sierra Leone:
Address By His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma President of the Republic of Sierra Leone At the EU Ebola Recovery Conference, Brussels 3 March 2015
Sierra Leone Government, 3 March 2015
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West Africa:
Leaders Call for International Help for Economy
DW, 3 March 2015
Some 600 experts, politicians and representatives of aid organizations met in Brussels to discuss the Ebola crisis and its consequences. Talks focused on the economic… Read more »
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Africa:
Africa's Medicine Men Key to Halting Ebola Spread in Guinea
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2 March 2015
In a land where witchcraft is sought after more than science for curing illness, medicine men in Guinea say the Ebola epidemic would be over by now if they had been properly… Read more »
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Liberia:
Liberia Gets U.S.$36.5 Million From IMF's New Trust for Disaster Recovery
IMF, 24 February 2015
The IMF Executive Board approved $36.5 million in debt relief to Liberia in the form of a grant from a newly established trust set up to help low-income countries recover from… Read more »
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Liberia:
Address By President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the U.S. Capitol (Feb 2015)
Govt of Liberia, 26 February 2015
Following are the prepared remarks by Her Excellency, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, at an event hosted By Congressman Chris Coons and the U.S. Institute of Peace at the Hart… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Ebola - Still Too Much to Worry About
Independent (Lagos), 26 February 2015
The world seems to have taken control of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) that is hitting out at various countries in West Africa. Nigeria, for instance was able to tame the EVD… Read more »
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West Africa:
Ebola Fight Hit by Failure to Involve Locals
SciDev.Net, 24 February 2015
Efforts to save lives in the West African Ebola outbreak have been undermined by a failure to involve local people more closely in communication about treatment and ethical… Read more »
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West Africa:
Surviving Ebola and the Road to Early Recovery
UNDP, 13 February 2015
Josephine Dolley survived Ebola but it cost her dearly. 29 members of her family died including her husband and three boys, Emmanuel, Augustine and Exodus. She lost her job and now… Read more »