New Ebola Cases Spike in Sierra Leone and Guinea
Guinea and Sierra Leone have reported 35 new Ebola cases in the past week, four times as many as the week before, providing a reminder that the virus “will not go quietly”, a top World Health Organization official said. “It will take an extraordinary effort to finish the job,” the WHO’s special representative for Ebola, […]
World Bank to Support Regional Trade and Integration in West Africa
Washington — The World Bank Group’s Board of Directors today approved support for a regional transmission network to enable electricity trade among the western African countries of The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. The US$200 million IDA* credit will finance the construction of transmission lines to connect the electrical networks of the four countries and […]
For the Future of Fisheries in West-Africa
In order to see fisheries reborn, West African States must take up their responsibility to eradicate all forms of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, including a practice which is slowly killing a collapsing sector: the underreporting of Gross Tonnage (GT)! Rarely mentioned when discussing IUU fishing, under-reporting of the gross tonnage of some industrial […]
Guinea After Ebola – The Pain of the New Normal
Gueckedou — “Life is back to normal, but everything has changed,” said 30-year-old Yawa Keterine Camara as she slowly stirred a boiling cauldron of sauce outside her mud-brick home in southeastern Guinea. “I live again like before, but nothing is quite the same.” Camara, who lost her husband to Ebola in November, said her life, […]
Guinea’s President Plays the Ethnic Card
The incumbent head of state, Condé, who came to power in disputed elections in 2010, has given voters few compelling reasons to award him a second and final term in the presidential election scheduled for October 11. Both urban and rural poverty have increased during the president’s tenure according to his own finance ministry’s report […]
Ebola fighters are Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
Foday Gallah saw the sick child was distressed and felt he had to do something. So he picked the kid up to comfort him. And with that act of kindness, the 37-year-old ambulance supervisor in Monrovia, Liberia, contracted Ebola himself.“Of course, he got vomit all over him and that’s how he got Ebola,” said photographer […]
