# west-africa - Monday 23 January, 2017
Yahya Jammeh flew out of The Gambia on Saturday.
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# west-africa - Saturday 14 May, 2016
The country’s fashion for large bottoms leads to some people taking drastic measures.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 26 April, 2016
In Burkina Faso, children as young as nine are being forced into marriage.
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# west-africa - Friday 29 May, 2015
… in all likelihood though, the bird probably has an owner in the local area.
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# west-africa - Wednesday 4 February, 2015
The Ebola response appears to finally be working. But Sierra Leone has never faced an enemy like this before – the crisis has been devastating.
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# west-africa - Friday 16 January, 2015
A suspicion of vaccines and stigma around Ebola can have devastating affects.
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# west-africa - Monday 22 December, 2014
She’s a great madra altogether.
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# west-africa - Monday 1 December, 2014
Solutions do not come easy, but Ebola transmission can be stopped.
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# west-africa - Friday 28 November, 2014
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.
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# west-africa - Saturday 22 November, 2014
The centre was built by the UK Government.
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# west-africa - Friday 21 November, 2014
The bikes have been sent to west Africa.
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# west-africa - Friday 14 November, 2014
Drug and blood-based trials will begin in West Africa next month.
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# west-africa - Wednesday 12 November, 2014
Mali, however, has recorded just its second death.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 11 November, 2014
The move got Cabinet approval today.
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Progress is being made in the battle against the disease in the African nation. Another 250-bed centre is treating around 50 patients.
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# west-africa - Saturday 1 November, 2014
The judge said that Kaci Hickox is not infectious.
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# west-africa - Friday 31 October, 2014
To date, Ireland has provided direct funding of almost €3 million to help fight the deadly virus.
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# west-africa - Monday 27 October, 2014
It comes as a teenager arriving from Guinea and put into isolation has tested negative for the disease.
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# west-africa - Saturday 25 October, 2014
Where did it come from? And how can it be overcome?
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The girl had recently returned to Mali from neighbouring Guinea.
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# west-africa - Friday 24 October, 2014
That’s according to the National Public Health Emergency Team.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 21 October, 2014
This will allow authorities to focus their health checks.
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New research has also found that screening people leaving West Africa is far more efficient than screening those arriving at other countries.
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# west-africa - Friday 17 October, 2014
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.
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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.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
Facebook’s CEO said that the virus must be brought under control soon, before it becomes a “long-term global health crisis”.
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Meanwhile, a second US patient, Nina Pham, said she was “blessed”.
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There was uproar when it was suggested that the dog of a Spanish Ebola patient be put down.
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# west-africa - Monday 13 October, 2014
The Director of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre said we’ve moved into an emergency plan.
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# west-africa - Thursday 9 October, 2014
Downing Street confirmed the move today in a bid to help stop the deadly virus from spreading,
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# west-africa - Monday 6 October, 2014
Pictured is Dr Mitchell Levy, father of the patient, Ashoka Mukpo.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 23 September, 2014
Members of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Health are set to meet with NGOs to discuss the issue tomorrow.
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# west-africa - Wednesday 17 September, 2014
The American president ordered 3,000 US military personnel to West Africa to combat the growing health crisis.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 16 September, 2014
The current outbreak has killed 2,400 people so far.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 9 September, 2014
All the Ebola treatment centres in Sierra Leone are currently full; they simply cannot take any more patients, writes Darren Hanniffy.
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# west-africa - Saturday 30 August, 2014
Meanwhile, Morocco has vowed to keep up regularly scheduled flights to Ebola-hit nations in a “solidarity” move.
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The EU leaders will also discuss the Ukraine crisis at the special meeting.
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# west-africa - Thursday 28 August, 2014
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa raises some important questions about the treatment of infectious disease and the so-called developed world.
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# west-africa - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
The HSE said it would not be providing information on other cases – but that there had been a “handful” of investigations apart from the Donegal death.
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# west-africa - Friday 22 August, 2014
New legislation passed as WHO outlines reasons it believes the current Ebola outbreak is being underestimated.
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