Mali president resigns after military coup
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s government had been beset by months of protests.
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Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s government had been beset by months of protests.
One American, one Korean and two French hostages were freed in the operation.
Yahya Jammeh flew out of The Gambia on Saturday.
The country’s fashion for large bottoms leads to some people taking drastic measures.
In Burkina Faso, children as young as nine are being forced into marriage.
… in all likelihood though, the bird probably has an owner in the local area.
The Ebola response appears to finally be working. But Sierra Leone has never faced an enemy like this before – the crisis has been devastating.
A suspicion of vaccines and stigma around Ebola can have devastating affects.
She’s a great madra altogether.
Solutions do not come easy, but Ebola transmission can be stopped.
Studies showed that three men who had recovered from Ebola still had the live virus in their semen for over a month after the onset of symptoms.
The centre was built by the UK Government.
The bikes have been sent to west Africa.
Drug and blood-based trials will begin in West Africa next month.
Mali, however, has recorded just its second death.
The move got Cabinet approval today.
Progress is being made in the battle against the disease in the African nation. Another 250-bed centre is treating around 50 patients.
The judge said that Kaci Hickox is not infectious.
To date, Ireland has provided direct funding of almost €3 million to help fight the deadly virus.
It comes as a teenager arriving from Guinea and put into isolation has tested negative for the disease.
Where did it come from? And how can it be overcome?
The girl had recently returned to Mali from neighbouring Guinea.
That’s according to the National Public Health Emergency Team.
This will allow authorities to focus their health checks.
New research has also found that screening people leaving West Africa is far more efficient than screening those arriving at other countries.
Sierra Leone is a very friendly, sociable place but that is changing. People are avoiding church and the mosque, and shops have chlorine buckets outside for people to wash their hands before they enter.
The cash, which came from Colombia, is a tiny fraction of the $1 billion that the UN has estimated it needs to fight the epidemic.
Facebook’s CEO said that the virus must be brought under control soon, before it becomes a “long-term global health crisis”.
Meanwhile, a second US patient, Nina Pham, said she was “blessed”.
There was uproar when it was suggested that the dog of a Spanish Ebola patient be put down.
The Director of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre said we’ve moved into an emergency plan.
Downing Street confirmed the move today in a bid to help stop the deadly virus from spreading,
Pictured is Dr Mitchell Levy, father of the patient, Ashoka Mukpo.
Members of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Health are set to meet with NGOs to discuss the issue tomorrow.
The American president ordered 3,000 US military personnel to West Africa to combat the growing health crisis.
The current outbreak has killed 2,400 people so far.
All the Ebola treatment centres in Sierra Leone are currently full; they simply cannot take any more patients, writes Darren Hanniffy.
Meanwhile, Morocco has vowed to keep up regularly scheduled flights to Ebola-hit nations in a “solidarity” move.
The EU leaders will also discuss the Ukraine crisis at the special meeting.
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa raises some important questions about the treatment of infectious disease and the so-called developed world.