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Twenty-seven-year-old Bintu Massaquoi was cheerfully narrating how she survived the Ebola virus disease until she was asked how much she missed her husband and her five-year-old child, both killed by the disease. Her mood…
Throughout most of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the western prefecture of Boke, Guinea, had not experienced a single case. But a recent flare up of cases there has prompted a response surge, with partners even worried…
A rise in new confirmed Ebola cases in Boké prefecture in Western Guinea has seen response partners step up efforts to contain the virus in that region. In Kamsar, an important mining town in Boké, a new Transit Centre for…
The number of Ebola cases in West Africa has increased for the second straight week, with the number of cases that arose from unknown sources of infection highlighting the challenges still faced in finding and eliminating…
Leaders of the two remaining countries battling Ebola, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and President Alpha Condé of Guinea, jointly visited the border post between Gbalamuya in Kambia District in Sierra Leone and…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has begun distributing the first batches of 700,000 teaching and learning kits to thousands of schools across Liberia, where last year’s Ebola outbreak disrupted the education of…
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today reported an increase in the intensity and geographic area of Ebola transmission in Guinea and Sierra Leone, warned that the onset of the rainy season “from now onwards”…
To help mobilize needed resources “in the last mile of the response” against the Ebola outbreak and to start the affected West African countries on the path of early recovery, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon…
The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) Sierra Leone Ebola Crisis Manager (ECM), Bintou Keita, last week inaugurated an UNMEER-funded water borehole project at the Observatory Interim Care Centre…
As the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) met to discuss the role of partnerships in achieving the Post-2015 development agenda, the focus fell on the recent response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa and…
The World Health Assembly wrapped up its work today after giving the greenlight for the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) to reform its emergency and response capacity to better tackle future disease outbreaks…
Each year, Africa Day is an opportunity to celebrate the continent's achievements and to reflect on its challenges, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, highlighting the courage and determination it took…