NNPA NEWSWIRE — This year’s fellows represent the following countries: Benin, Cameroon, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia,...
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free for a second time on Thursday after the country hardest hit...
(BBC) – The continuing Ebola epidemic in Guinea has set back the country’s fight against malaria, say experts. They estimate 74,000 cases of malaria went...
Creative Arts Seen as Way to Tap into Act’s Potential By Barrington M. Salmon Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Supporters of the Africa...
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Relatives of Ebola victims are transporting their bodies on public transportation in Guinea, seating the corpses upright between...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to its lowest total...
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea closed its border with Sierra Leone on Monday as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola,...
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization warned on Friday of a risk of outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other diseases in West African countries...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization will start large-scale testing of an experimental Ebola vaccine in Guinea on Saturday to...
(Reuters) – The number of people sick with Ebola fever has doubled in Guinea in the past week following the discovery of cases previously unknown...
John Heilprin, ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA (AP) — Liberia and Guinea have met a Dec. 1 target for isolating 70 percent of people infected with Ebola and...
(CNN) – French President Francois Hollande is visiting Guinea on Friday in a direct show of support for the West African nation as it battles the deadly...
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...
Paul Wiseman and Boubacar Diallo, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as their economies had begun to recover from the man-made horror of coups and...
(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...
(Bloomberg Businessweek)—In the wake of the revelation that the Dallas man infected with Ebola flew on United Airlines flights from Liberia to Liberia, more than 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....
Lauran Neergaard and Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the...
Umaru Fofana and Clair MacDougall, REUTERS (Reuters) – Hundreds of troops deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia on Monday under an emergency plan to fight...
[Medical News Today] Following the announcement of eight confirmed cases of ebola in the capital Conarky, the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), says...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Health officials in the West African nation of Guinea say the death toll from a rare Ebola outbreak has risen to 63....
by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Seeking partners, seeking progress Wives of presidents and government ministers attend major health summit...
