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Ebola epidemic sparks state of emergency across West Africa
A fast-spreading Ebola epidemic sparked a state of emergency in overwhelmed West African nations on Thursday as the death toll neared 1 000. In Liberia, where the dead lay in the streets, lawmakers...
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Ebola taking toll on West African economy
Locals in a market in Kenema, Sierra Leone. (Pic: AFP) The worst-ever outbreak of the Ebola virus is taking a heavy toll on West Africa’s economy as crops rot in the fields, mines are abandoned and...
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Ebola threatening Liberia’s existence, minister warns
Health workers at ELWA’s hospital isolation camp in Liberia. (Pic: Reuters) Ebola is threatening the very existence of Liberia as the killer virus spreads like “wild fire”, the defence minister warned...
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Buckets and soap – birthday gifts for a president in an Ebola zone
It has been a vexing problem for courtesans of queens, princesses and the powerful throughout history – what do you get for the woman who has everything? For the guests celebrating the 76th birthday of...
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Families left haunted by Liberia’s Ebola crematorium
Bystanders watch as a suspected Ebola victim waits to be transported from Devils Hole North, west of Freetown. (Pic: Reuters) Brian Lomax (26) sleeps on a pile of bones – the remains of cremated Ebola...
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Ebola vaccine trials begin in Liberia
An adhesive bandage is placed on the arm of a volunteer after she was administered an experimental Ebola vaccine at Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town, a suburb of Monrovia, on February 2. (Pic: AFP)...
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Liberia emerges from the nightmare of Ebola
Staff and volunteers at the ELWA hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia wearing protective gear. (Pic: AFP) Heavily pregnant when she died, Fatimah Jakemah was bagged, bleached and carted off for...
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WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free
A man walks past an Ebola campaign banner in Monrovia. (Pic: AFP) The UN health agency on Saturday declared Liberia Ebola-free, hailing the “monumental” achievement in the west African country where...
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Two new trials of Ebola vaccines begin in Africa and Europe
Healthcare workers, wearing protective suits, leave a high-risk area at the French NGO Médecins Sans Frontières Elwa hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Pic: Dominique Faget/AFP Two new Ebola vaccine trials...
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Ebola: Where are we now?
A medical worker checks his protective clothing at an MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. (Pic: AFP) For the first time in more than a year, no one in either Sierra Leone or Liberia is being...
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