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The international community’s mobilization in the global Ebola response has been “very impressive and effective” but efforts to reach zero cases must continue unabated, a top United Nations humanitarian official has confirmed…
Today marks the start of the five-day “Festival sur le Niger” in Ségou, Mali. In its 11th year, the festival brings together cultural actors, art professionals and institutions around the theme, Music, Culture and Social…
As the old truck-turned ambulance backs into the makeshift tent, a team of health workers swarms to receive it. In clockwork-like motion, they transfer the adult-sized body bag onto an improvised bamboo table, the tarp of the…
Last June, Siah Tamba’s friend got sick. A nurse aid, Tamba did what any friend would do: she took care of her, bathed her, fed her, and used her medical expertise to help her. Unfortunately, Tamba’s compassion put her own…
Mohammad, 41, is a taxi driver from Mali. As he winds through the narrow streets of Bamako’s bustling downtown, he explains how life never really changed for him during the Ebola outbreak. “I still had customers. My business…
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that the Ebola vaccine trials now under way in Liberia would start soon in Guinea and Sierra Leone, the two other most-affected countries in West Africa. The…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today assured African leaders gathered for a summit in Addis Ababa of the support of the United Nations in helping the countries affected by Ebola “build back stronger than ever,” while the head…
Ebola survivor, Dr. Rick Sacra, is back in Liberia continuing his medical practice at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia. Sacra arrived in Liberia on 18 January 2015 after being infected with the Ebola Virus Disease last August. He…
This week, the number of new Ebola cases recorded in West Africa fell below 100 for the first time in seven months, the World Health Organization reported today as it announced that the battle against the deadly virus has…
Today, at a meeting of global stakeholders to review progress on the Ebola response, the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) called on all leaders to maintain…
Dr. Rick Sacra: My first time in Liberia was in 1987-88 for about ten months as a medical student and finished my training and did a residency in family medicine; finished that in 1992. East Tennessee State University - the…
Representatives of the Governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire today began meeting in Freetown, under the umbrella of the Mano River Union, a sub-regional political grouping comprising the four…