MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YORK, England (AP) — Professors from three leading British universities say International Monetary Fund policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending...
(Business Week) – Mabinty Mansaray’s plan for Christmas and New Year’s was the usual: grab her kids and her two sisters and take the bus from...
Black Baltimore Based Meridian Management Group, Inc. Provided Financing by James Wright Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A Black-owned Prince George’s County firm...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Health workers sent to Sierra Leone to investigate an alarming spike in deaths...
KILEY ARMSTRONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors, nurses and others fighting Ebola through “tireless acts of courage and mercy” have been named Time’s 2014...
(CNN) — “Blood, sweat, and tears” on the football pitch used to mean a very different thing in Sierra Leone. In a country where Ebola is spreading...
BETHESDA, Md. (WJZ) — A big breakthrough in the fight against Ebola right here in Maryland. A possible vaccine gets “promising results” in a clinical...
DALLAS (USA Today) — Attorneys representing the family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan said Wednesday the hospital that treated him will pay his relatives an undisclosed...
GERALD IMRAY, AP Sports Writer Morocco was thrown out of the 2015 African Cup of Nations and dumped as the host Tuesday after refusing to commit...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — As the biggest-ever outbreak of Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, here are a few key numbers to...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new private sector initiative announced Wednesday will provide at least $450 million in commercial financing to...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight Ebola by adding a button designed to make it...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) – “I am a Liberian, not a virus.” That’s the loud and clear message of a...
MONROVIA, Liberia (New York Times) — The president waited until her family members were seated around the dining table before announcing, with no fanfare,...
(USA Today) – Texas nurse Amber Vinson, who was declared free of Ebola virus and discharged from Emory University Hospital, said Tuesday she is “so...
(Bloomberg) – The European Union increased its aid pledge to fight Ebola in West Africa to 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) as Mali became the sixth...
DAKAR, Oct 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ebola survivors in Liberia are quickly becoming an important part of the fight against the deadly virus that...
(AllAfrica.com) – A new study “On the Quarantine Period for Ebola Virus” published, last week, in the PLOS Currents: Outbreaks suggests that 21 days might...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s authority to screen airline passengers for potential Ebola exposure and order them quarantined if necessary is far-reaching...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama calls it a “belt and suspenders” approach — an extra level of screening at five...
NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press JOSH FUNK, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The death of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States renewed questions about...
(Los Angeles Times) – President Obama talked up his administration’s response to Ebola and the procedures standing as a line of defense against the spread...
(National Geographic) – Some prominent Obama administration critics have made that argument this week, calling for a travel ban into the U.S. from the West African nations of...
NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday morning in a Dallas hospital, according to a...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Six months into the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, scientists say they know more about how the deadly virus behaves....
