The Ebola epidemic and falling commodity prices have signalled a need for economic change in the West African country.
The end of the outbreak is in sight, but the high human and economic costs are yet to be tallied.
African leaders are set to discuss economic recovery for countries affected by war and the Ebola virus at the African Union summit in Adis Ababa.
More ambulances, checkpoints and changes in behaviour are keeping new Ebola cases in check, with hopes the govt could stamp out the virus by March.
African countries hit by Ebola are struggling from the fallout of the disease, and countries are calling for their debts to be alleviated.
The army is to enforce the government’s travel ban during the Christmas period and a military presence aims to deter street celebrations.
Time magazine has elected the medics treating Ebola patients in West Africa and other parts of the world as its Person of the Year for 2014.
Médecins Sans Frontières has criticised the international community’s response to Ebola in West Africa, saying it risks becoming a ‘double failure’.
Personal accounts from Liberia and Sierra Leone bring home the devastation wrought by the virus.
Marking World Toilet Day, the United Nations said the spread of deadly viruses such as Ebola is linked to defecation in the open.
Mali has placed a total of 577 people under observation after two people died from the deadly virus in the capital Bamako.
How many lives must be lost to Ebola before the AU cuts through the bureaucratic red tape that is strangling the life out of our people, asks the AHF.
The World Health Organisation is concerned many people were exposed to the two-year-old girl who was Mali’s first confirmed Ebola case.
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/ 24 October 2014
There is little reason to worry even if a fellow passenger has contracted the disease.
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/ 14 October 2014
Medecins Sans Frontieres says that amid collapsing health systems, people in the countries worst affected are too afraid to report all Ebola cases.
Malian health workers volunteered to participate in an international Ebola vaccine trial, developed by an institute in the US.
Those who forget past social and other patterns of illness and stigma are doomed to repeat them.
The Capetonian woman being held in Nigeria was working in Guinea and Sierra Leone, and is said to be showing potential symptoms of the Ebola virus.
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/ 9 September 2014
The AU said lifting the travel ban would ease the economic impact of the restrictions, which add to continent’s woes.
The African Union will have to deal with a crisis of another colour altogether, even as a continental response strategy to illness takes shape.
Sierra Leone’s government says it will impose a three-day nationwide lockdown from September 19 in a bid to control the spread of Ebola.