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The top United Nations development official today began the last leg of her Ebola-recovery focused visit to West Africa a day after she witnessed the reopening of schools in Liberia and urged the international community to…
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Saturday, in Freetown, launched a Yellow Ribbon campaign to mobilize the population for the Ebola fight. “The yellow ribbon symbolizes a commitment of individuals, groups and…
The presidents of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone met yesterday in Conakry, in a move to unify their efforts in tackling the Ebola epidemic, with the virus still to be defeated even as the number of new cases is declining…
In addition to lives lost and the socio-economic impact of the Ebola outbreak, the long-term impact on families – with at least 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone losing one or both parents to the virus –…
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it will huddle with medical teams from outside the Ebola-affected countries next week in Geneva to see how they can help in the last phases of the fight…
The Ebola war is being fought on many fronts. On the frontlines, social mobilizers strive to educate local communities, contact tracers go door-to-door searching for new cases, and doctors and nurses work to save lives in…
The World Bank Group announced today that it has mobilized some $15 million in emergency financing to provide a record 10,500 tons of maize and rice seed to more than 200,000 farmers in the countries most-affected by the…
The top United Nations development official, tasked by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to lead the Organization’ system-wide Ebola-related recovery effort, today began a visit to West Africa, where a new study recommended…
The enemy was invisible – that’s how United Nations photographer Martine Perret described Ebola, the deadly virus which has killed nearly 9,000 people in West Africa. Last December, Ms. Perret – who has worked in a number of…
Guiba Kondé sleeps in a small hut off the side of the dusty road in Nougani, Mali. There are no stores for miles; in fact, there is not much there at all. Yet Nougani retains a key importance for one reason: it is a transit…
Having recently visited the West African countries worst-affected by the current Ebola crisis, John Ging, Operations Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), returned feeling…
Grief among the more than 16,000 children orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa runs deep, but most of them have been taken in by families thanks to the bonds of kinship that has proven stronger than stigma and fear…