From Boko Haram’s insurgency and the Ebola nightmare, to quack cures and dodgy data, Africa Check investigated dozens of claims in African countries.
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.
This success in saving lives may be offset by the Ebola outbreak, and the UN agency warned of factors that might reverse the progress being made.
Personal accounts from Liberia and Sierra Leone bring home the devastation wrought by the virus.
Hysteria has spread faster than the disease ever could, infecting prejudices everywhere.
Marking World Toilet Day, the United Nations said the spread of deadly viruses such as Ebola is linked to defecation in the open.
Geldof’s project should highlight the geopolitical problems that allowed the disease to spread.
Despite the fact that the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations may not happen, heavyweights are still battling it out in the qualifiers for the coveted trophy.
The number of Ebola cases is still rising in Sierra Leone, though it is stabilising in neighbouring Guinea and slowing in Liberia.
Fears are rising that a new, uncontrolled infection chain could send the death toll soaring.
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/ 30 October 2014
Low HIV rates in West Africa meant the region did not benefit from international aid for clinics and staff, leaving healthcare systems to crumble.
In a move that has been called "purely political", Australia is the first rich nation to shut its doors to West African countries hit by Ebola.
The health ministry is confident in its preventative measures and fallback preparations as WHO infections breach the 10 000 mark.
The World Health Organisation is concerned many people were exposed to the two-year-old girl who was Mali’s first confirmed Ebola case.
New York and New Jersey have agreed to impose even stricter measures on travelers from Ebola-hit West African countries.
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/ 24 October 2014
There is little reason to worry even if a fellow passenger has contracted the disease.
Doctors say the funds spent on airport checks would be better used to stop Ebola at its source.
Ebola should bring home to American conservatives that they are part of humanity.
The WHO says two experimental vaccines could lead to trials being done in West Africa in January, while another flu drug is being tested as well.
The World Health Organisation has declared Nigeria Ebola-free after the country managed to contain cases of the deadly virus.
With the death rate at 70%, new strategies, resources and tough targets are being put in place.
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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.
The head of the African Development Bank has criticised the international response to the Ebola outbreak as too little, too late.
Morocco’s government has made a plea with the Africa Cup of Nations "to avoid events which involve those countries affected by the Ebola virus".
Even though aid is coming in slower than hoped, Liberia’s leader says she sees a decline in the crisis that has claimed 3 900 in West Africa.
The Ebola outbreak could cost African economies as much as $32.6-billion by the end of 2015, according to the World Bank Group.
Following President Barack Obama’s call to boost controls on people entering the US, health officials say the country will impose stricter controls.
The spread of extremism and Ebola contradict the "Africa rising" narrative but good governance can overcome the continent’s problems, says Mo Ibrahim.
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/ 29 September 2014
In an effort to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak, scientists and authorities are aiming to roll out vaccines, raising questions of ethics.
As healthcare systems collapse from the strain, the race is on to find a treatment that works.
While Nigeria’s president has declared his country Ebola-free, 1.2-million people have been affected by a quarantine in Sierra Leone.