By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist This ought to be a season of hope for Liberia and Sierra Leone, two of the West African countries that...
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...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa is a global health emergency. Countries around the world...
(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...
CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone on Thursday took the dramatic step of sealing off districts where more than 1 million...
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....
(Washington Post) – Deep in the rain forest, down a dirt road with potholes that swallow four-wheel-drive vehicles, is a tiny point of light in...
(Time) – Sierra Leone has begun a three-day nationwide lockdown as it struggles to contend with the Ebola virus’s unprecedented, lethal thrust across West Africa. Citizens of Sierra...
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...
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in...
PARIS (AP) — France on Wednesday recommended that its citizens leave the African countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia because of the outbreak of Ebola...
GERALD IMRAY, AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — It started when the small Indian Ocean island of Seychelles refused entry to Sierra Leone’s...
Umaru Fofana and Clair MacDougall, REUTERS (Reuters) – Hundreds of troops deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia on Monday under an emergency plan to fight...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Mar. 31 (GIN) – The World Bank, blamed for the devastation of thousands of lives in developing...
NAIROBI, KENYA (AP) – A Kenyan military spokesman says most Kenyan troops will soon leave Somalia’s port city of Kismayo which they have controlled since September...
