Lessons learnt in the 2013-2015 epidemic in West Africa helped limit the highly contagious disease
The spread of the outbreak to Mbandaka roused the concern of the health ministry and other public health organisations
Mandela served only one term as president. Other African leaders must learn from him
The West African Virus Epidemiology project aims to shield the region from the advancing peril
Ebola wiped out nearly 10% of Liberia’s doctors and nurses. Take a look at life for those it left behind.
The virus’ resurgence, this time in a city of more than one-million people could set the scene for a fast-spreading disaster.
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is optimistic the health organisation — along with its partners — will be able to beat the virus
The latest outbreak in the region northeast of Kinshasa has so far killed 17 people
Activists have erected barricades in several neighbourhoods in the capital, Conakry
There is, however, good reason to believe that the country can prevent an outbreak, given its recent history of dealing with Ebola outbreaks.
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and Friday senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo
After Sierra Leone’s civil war, money poured in for mental health services. But a decade later, there’s little left to help Ebola’s victims.
The superpower may expand its bootprint across the continent but it was the Ebola outbreak that sparked this latest move in its ‘war on terror’.
A woman who died of Ebola in Liberia is thought to have contracted the disease in Guinea.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constitutes an international emergency.
Those who survived Ebola are stigmatised, often ostracised by their communities and denied healthcare.
The WHO has dispatched an expert team to southern Guinea after new cases of Ebola surfaced there.
Striking healthcare workers put Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola in jeopardy. Harnessing open-source software and the voters’ roll solved the issue.
The declaration by authorities was met with mixed emotions, the memory of the virus that has left more than 2 500 people dead still too fresh.
Chinese and African health ministers have adopted a declaration to increase access to facilities, medication, health workers and training in Africa.
Africa’s Ebola epidemic has not run its course and around 30 people are still getting infected each week, says the UN special envoy for the disease.
Three new cases of the virus have emerged in the capital city of Freetown after a lull of three weeks since the last known infections.
The outbreak proved how important it is to respond to infectious diseases with expertise and a unified plan.
A consequence of the Ebola epidemic is a steep drop in measles vaccinations as overburdened hospitals are unable to keep up.
The Ebola epidemic and falling commodity prices have signalled a need for economic change in the West African country.
Oxfam has called for a multimillion-dollar plan to rebuild the economies of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, ahead of a recovery summit in Brussels.
The anticorruption commission is investigating why a third of taxpayers’ money allocated to fighting Ebola was not accounted for.
A force that at one point reached 2 800 has been scaled back to about 1 300 troops and nearly all will return to the US by the end of April.
A new project aims to inject people with genetic material in the hopes of spurring cells to make specific antibodies capable of fighting pathogens.
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Following harsh criticism of its handling of the Ebola outbreak last year, the organisation says it will up its game in dealing with future crises.
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.
Players entering Equatorial Guinea for the African Cup of Nations tournament will be tested for Ebola, along with all visitors to the country.