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WHO Announces Possible Ebola ‘Game Changer’ Vaccine

WHO Announces Possible Ebola ‘Game Changer’ Vaccine

Having achieved its “core objective” of scaling up global action to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response will officially wind down today, transferring its role to the World Health Organization (WHO), which just announced that an experimental vaccine being tested in Guinea appears to be highly […]

Acting Assistant Secretary Bond Travel to Benin, Gabon, and Guinea

Acting Assistant Secretary Bond Travel to Benin, Gabon, and Guinea

Acting Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Michele T. Bond will visit Benin, Gabon, and Guinea, July 7-11. She will visit the U.S. Embassy in Cotonou, Benin, July 7-9, and meet with the Director of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madame Myrina Amoussouga, and the Minister of Family, Honorine Atikpa, to discuss consular […]

Guinean former ruler Camara indicted for 2009 massacre in Conakry

Guinean former ruler Camara  indicted for 2009 massacre in Conakry

Guinean former military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara has been indicted for his role in a 2009 massacre in Conakry, his lawyer has told AFP news agency. More than 150 people were killed when security forces opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters at the capital’s main stadium. Women there were raped and dozens of people […]

Ebola-Stricken Nations Need U.S. $700 Million for Healthcare

Ebola-Stricken Nations Need U.S. $700 Million for Healthcare

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone need a further $696 million (£446.13 million) in donor funding to rebuild their battered health services over the next two years in the wake of the deadly Ebola epidemic, senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Monday. WHO Assistant Director General for Health Systems and Innovation Marie-Paule Kieny said […]

Ebola epidemic in Guinea ‘sets back malaria fight’

Ebola epidemic in Guinea ‘sets back malaria fight’

The continuing Ebola epidemic in Guinea has set back the country’s fight against malaria, say experts. They estimate 74,000 cases of malaria went untreated in 2014 because clinics were either closed or patients were too scared to seek help. They warn that malaria deaths since the Ebola outbreak began will far exceed the number of […]

‘Don’t Travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone’ – Liberia Warns

‘Don’t Travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone’ – Liberia Warns

The Government of Liberia has issued a travel and health alert, warning Liberians to avoid traveling to Guinea and Sierra Leone. Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah disclosed that there is active transmission of the Ebola virus in the two neighboring countries. Addressing the Ministry of Information regular press briefing Thursday, Nyenswah said Guinea and Sierra […]

Busted: Chimpanzees in the wild found boozing

Busted: Chimpanzees in the wild found boozing

They have shown an understanding of language and a sense of fairness, and now humans’ closest primate cousins have even been found to share a taste for alcohol. Scientists studying chimpanzees in Guinea have seen evidence of long-term and recurrent ingestion of ethanol by apes. The 17-year study recorded chimps using leaves to drink fermented […]

Fight Aganist Ebola Hampered By Traditional Practice

Fight Aganist Ebola Hampered By Traditional Practice

Sierra Leone and Guinea are working hard to be free of Ebola when they meet the World Health Organization required time frame of 42 days without reporting any new transmission of the deadly virus like Liberia. There were 12 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reported in the week to 24 May: 9 from […]

Conflict-Affected States to Benefit From New IFC and Ecobank Facility

Conflict-Affected States to Benefit From New IFC and Ecobank Facility

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the Ecobank Group and leading pan-African full-service banking group, today announced the launch of a $110 million risk-sharing facility. It will increase access to finance for small and medium sized enterprises in fragile and conflict-affected states […]

Guineans jailed for putting an Ebola patient in a taxi

Guineans jailed for putting an Ebola patient in a taxi

Six people have been put in isolation in prison in Guinea after being accused of travelling with a corpse of a relative who had died of Ebola.The authorities said the body was seated upright in a taxi, dressed in a T-shirt and jeans with sunglasses and sandwiched between three others.If after 21 days they show […]

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