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A doctor in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, dealing yet another blow to the country's fight against the deadly outbreak, an official announced Tuesday. 
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Nick Dearden: Instead of more tired stereotypes of poor Africans, celebrities could highlight the geo-political problems that allowed the disease to spread
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Kenya is set to deploy 315 medical personnel to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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The first of six British centres for treating people suffering from Ebola is opening in Sierra Leone.
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According to Concern Worldwide, around 80 percent of Ebola transmission are estimated to take place around burials. However due to successful education programs the number of safe burials Sierra Leone, has risen dramatically in recent weeks from 30 to 98 percent.
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West African immigrants on New York's Staten Island are concerned over the spreading Ebola virus and their families back home.
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More than 5,000 international healthcare workers and support staff are needed to contain the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa, but doctors, nurses and emergency responders say the uncertainty about what might happen in the field if they get sick is slowing down recruitment.
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“ The British have once again demonstrated to the world what it means to have an empire where the sun never sets by building an Ebola treatment clinic...”
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After Oyewale Tomori finished his talk on Ebola here at the International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, there was stunned silence. Tomori, the president of the Nigerian Academy of Science, used his plenary to deliver a scathing critique of how African countries have handled the threat of Ebola and how corruption is hampering efforts to improve health. Aid money often simply disappears, Tomori charged, "and we are left underdeveloped, totally and completely unprepared to tackle emerging pathogens...
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Aid organizations turn to governments, militaries and NGOs to address the the transport challenges hindering the response in the Ebola zone.
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From using Bitcoins to fundraise, to adopting new strategies to prevent malaria victims appearing to be Ebola cases, to working with new partners - aid agencies in West Africa are learning to adapt fast.
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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Remembering those who have died in the world's deadliest Ebola outbreak, Liberia's president opened one of the country's largest Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia on Friday amid hopes that the…...
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...We've been bombarded with a cacophony of non-African "expert" opinions about how to "save" Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone from Ebola. Yet, Ugandan and Congolese specialists, who contained the virus repeatedly in their own countries, have been sidelined in the mainstream international press...
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Charity urge donors to back rapid-response teams rather than huge isolation units as epidemic takes new turn in Liberia.
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Two hundred girls are weaving in and out of dirty alleys in the seaside slum of West Point, Liberia. One man, straddling a large drum, keeps time as their voices rise in song: “Believe it, people, Ebola can kill.” Passers-by emerge from concrete buildings to watch the girls, now nearly dancing down the dirt roads in rows of two. One voice rises above the others: “Let’s come together to stop Ebola.” The march, held on 17 September 2014, marked the official launch of Adolescents Leading an Intense Fight Against Ebola, or A-LIFE. Made up of girls aged 16-19 and a handful of boys around the same age, the group was formed to spread awareness and education about Ebola to help curb its spread in their community. The group members came up with the name themselves and launched their mission on their own. They have already reached more than 4 000 homes in West Point.
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Save the Children is opening its first specialist Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in Sierra Leone as part of its wider fight to treat and stop the spread of Ebola.
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a package of at least $450 million in commercial financing that will enable trade, investment, and employment in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone as the country suffers from a lack of treatment centres, while lack of food and basic goods is forcing some people to leave quarantine areas, the United Nations said. The UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) said in its weekly report that a total of 1,062 people had died in Sierra Leone from the virus, with the outbreak particularly virulent in the western areas around the coastal capital Freetown... ...UNMEER reported a growing incidence of families leaving their quarantined homes due to lack of food and non-food items, but did not provide further details. It said that the World Food Programme (WFP) has been distributing one-month rations to quarantined household and communities in the hard-hit area of Waterloo, in the outskirts of Freetown, where 80 per cent of people in need have already received rations.
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“FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 3 November 2014 – These days in Sierra Leone, most people do all they can to stay clear of hospitals and health centres, where those infected with Ebola virus are being sheltered and treated.”
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“New cases are slowing but Ebola is still a ‘real crisis’ with more ‘skilled experts’ needed”
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Ebola website provides comprehensive, up-to-date information.
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Africa's economic growth is bounding ahead, despite the Ebola epidemic gnawing at its western shoulder, but some see the continent showing a deficit in solidarity towards the three poor and war-weakened states worst hit by the deadly disease. While non-African nations from the United States to China and Cuba are deploying resources and health personnel in a U.N.-led surge to aid Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, fast-growing Africa's states and institutions are facing questions about the level and speed of their own contributions. With nearly 5,000 people already dead, added urgency comes from the disease's spread in Africa's west, besides isolated cases in the United States and Europe. Mali confirmed its first case on Thursday, becoming the sixth West African nation to be touched by the outbreak. "It is very clear African governments are not doing enough, given the resources that some countries do have," Gilles Yabi, a Dakar-based independent West Africa analyst, told Reuters...
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Crisis forces World Food Programme to operate beyond its remit by contributing to construction, transport and communications
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Ebola is spreading up to nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone than two months ago, a report by the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) said. On average, 12 new cases a day were seen in the rural areas surrounding Freetown in late October, compared with 1.3 cases in early September, the report said on Sunday, a nine fold increase.
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