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Sierra Leone beat Ghana as most peaceful country in West Africa

Sierra Leone has taken Ghana’s place to be the most peaceful country in West Africa, a 2015 report by the Global Peace Index of the Instit...

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New Ebola Cases Show First Rise In 2015

The number of new cases of Ebola went up in all three of West Africa's worst-hit countries in the last week of January, the World Health...

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New 15-Minute Test For Ebola To Undergo Trials In West Africa

A new test designed to rapidly diagnose Ebola virus infection is to be tried out at a treatment centre for the disease in Guinea, internatio...

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Project Fame West Africa Season 7 Winners Get Brand New Cars

Geoffrey, Christian and Ruky, the winners of the 7th Season of Project Fame West Africa, were presented with brand new cars during the week....

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Ebola-Carrying Bats May Be Heroes As Well As Villains

Bats are living up to their frightening reputation in the world's worst Ebola outbreak as prime suspects for spreading the deadly virus ...

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Liberia Opens 1 Of Largest Ebola Treatment Centres

Liberia has opened one of its largest Ebola treatment centres yet in Monrovia, bracing for a new wave of infections even as officials expres...

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Ebola: Federal Govt Condemns 22 Countries For Discriminating Against Nigeria

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, on Friday, protested the continued ‘discrimination and profiling’ of Nigerians by so...

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BBC Launches WhatsApp Ebola Service

The BBC has launched an Ebola public health information service on WhatsApp, aimed at users of the service in West Africa. The service w...

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China Sends Ebola Drug To Africa, Eyes Clinical Trials

A Chinese drugmaker with military ties has sent an experimental Ebola drug to Africa for use by Chinese aid workers and is planning clinical...

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Liberian Healthcare Workers Call Off Ebola Strike

Healthcare unions in Liberia called off a strike on Wednesday over pay and working conditions for medical staff tackling an epidemic of the ...

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Liberia Minister Quarantined After Driver Died From Ebola

Liberia's Transport Minister Angeline Cassell-Bush has put herself into voluntary quarantine after her driver died of Ebola over the wee...

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Africa Confirms 3rd Ebola Victim Rises From The Dead, Releases Picture Of First “Ebola Zombie” Captured

Officials in Liberia have released the first confirmed image of a captured Ebola victim who rose from the dead. The name of the victim has n...

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Nurse In Spain Tests Positive For Ebola In First Known Transmission Outside Of Africa

Spanish nurse has become the first suspected person to have contracted the Ebola virus outside of western Africa. The female medic was p...

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SHOCKING: Sierra Leone Records 121 Ebola Deaths In A Single Day

Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in t...

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BREAKING : First Ebola Case Diagnosed On U.S. Soil

Centers for Disease Control says patient is being treated in Dallas, Texas, and had recently returned from Liberia. Medical officials an...

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Sierra Leone Ebola Lockdown Found 200 Infected

Sierra Leone's controversial Ebola lockdown has uncovered some 150 new cases of the deadly virus in addition to around 70 bodies previou...

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Eight Bodies Found In Village Latrine After Attack On Guinea Education Team

Eight bodies were found in a village latrine in rural Guinea after an attack on a team trying to educate locals of the risks on Ebola, a gov...

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Mali Says At Least 16 Killed In Artisanal Gold Mine Collapse

At least 16 people were killed following the collapse of a shaft in an artisanal gold mine some 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Mali'...

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Ebola Outbreak: Nigeria Authorities Arrest Female South African Suspect

The Nigerian health authorities said on Thursday that they were holding for Ebola testing a South African national in transit to her country...

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Guinean Who Brought Ebola To Senegal Recovers From Virus

The first case of the Ebola virus detected in Senegal, a 21-year-old student who arrived from neighbouring Guinea last month, has recovered ...

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