Schools have reopened across Sierra Leone nine months after they were shut down because of the Ebola outbreak. The government said it hopes that the studying time lost by the country’s 1.8 million children can still be made up for. The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says that the reopening of Sierra Leone’s schools marks…
Sierra Leone Vice President in Self Quarantine
Sam Sumana, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, has placed himself in quarantine, because of the recent death of one of his guards due to the Ebola Virus Disease. The Vice President took this decision just as the country introduces travel restriction as the number of cases of Ebola continues to rise. Sumana has placed…
Gambia To Host Conference on Ebola
Gambia is set to host an international conference on Ebola elimination in West Africa from February 26 to 28. The event organized by the Sierra Leone Embassy in Gambia in collaboration with the Gambian Ministry of Health, is aimed at complementing the efforts to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone. Soulay Daramy, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to…
US Troops To End Ebola Mission by April
US troops will be ending its Ebola relief mission in West Africa, with the last American troops scheduled to leave Liberia by April 30. President Barrack Obama said all but 100 of the US troops currently stationed in Liberia to fight the spread of Ebola will pull out by the end of April. There were…
Mali Now Ebola Free – Health Minister
Ousmane Kone, Mali’s health minister says the country is now free of the Ebola virus disease, after 42 days without a new case of the disease. “I declare this day the end of the epidemic of the Ebola virus in Mali,” he said. The last Ebola-infected patient in Mali recovered and left the hospital in…
Ebola Drug Trial Begins in Liberia
A clinical drug trial to treat Ebola has started at a Medecins Sans Frontieres centre in Liberia. The antiviral, brincidofovir is being tested on Ebola patients on a voluntary basis. Oxford University scientists leading the research say initial results are expected in the next few months. “It must be stressed that it is not a…
Ebola: First case confirmed in Scotland
Scottish authorities have revealed that a health care worker who just returned from Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in a Glasgow hospital. Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister called it the first case of Ebola ever diagnosed inside the United Kingdom. The patient flew to Glasgow via Casablanca and London’s…
Ebola: Willoughby, Sierra Leone’s Foremost Doctor Dies
Victor Willoughby, Sierra Leone’s foremost Ebola physician has been confirmed dead after contracting the deadly infectious disease. Brima Kargbo, Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer said Willoughby died earlier today just a few days after he tested positive for Ebola. The death of Willoughby makes it the 11th doctor in the country to die from the…
Ebola-hit nations at risk of hunger – UN
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme, WFP,on Wednesday, said the Ebola Virus Disease and the resulting restrictions has“caused a significant shock to the food and agriculture sectors in the affected countries.” The UN food agencies also revealed that close to one million people are at risk of going hungry in…
