Tag: Leone
Ebola costs Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone $2 billion – World Bank
The World Bank on Tuesday pledged further assistance to Liberia, the country worst hit by Ebola, and revealed that the epidemic would cost more...
Ebola batters Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone economies — World Bank
WASHINGTON - The World Bank said on Tuesday in Washington, that Ebola outbreak in West Africa was taking a heavy toll on the economies...
FG begins training of 250 volunteers to contain Ebola in Liberia,...
Lagos- The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) on Monday started training volunteers to be sent to help to contain the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)...
Sierra Leone appeals for U.S. military assistance
Sierra Leone appealed to the United States on Wednesday to send military aid to help it battle Ebola as it falls behind its West...
Sierra Leone Ebola burial workers dump bodies in pay protest
FREE TOW - NBurial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped bodies in the street outside a hospital in protest at authorities' failure to pay...
UN to miss December 1 Ebola target due to rising Sierra...
ACCRA (Reuters) - The U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission will not fully meet its Dec. 1 target for containing the virus due to escalating numbers...
Journey through the Ebola heartland in Sierra Leone and Guinea
By Tulip Mazumdar
The current Ebola outbreak is the worst the world has ever seen. One reason it's been able to spread so quickly is...
Ebola spreading intensely in Sierra Leone as toll rises, WHO says
GENEVA - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said the toll in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 5,420 deaths out of 15,145...
Cuban doctor in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola
HAVANA - A Cuban doctor treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the disease and was being sent to Geneva for...
7th Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola Official
FREETOWN - A Sierra Leonean senior health worker at the Hastings Treatment Centre in the outskirts of Freetown, confirmed that a Sierra Leonean doctor...
Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola at Nebraska hospital
(Reuters) - A surgeon from Sierra Leone has died of Ebola at the Nebraska hospital where he was being treated after arriving from West...
Ebola death toll tops 5,000; steep rise in Sierra Leone cases...
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa's three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, has...
Ebola crisis: Fresh UK military deployment to Sierra Leone
About 100 soldiers from the Royal Army Medical Corps are due to travel to Sierra Leone as part of the UK's efforts to tackle...
Ebola: Lagos to deploy health workers to Sierra Leone
Ikeja – The Lagos State Government on Sunday said it was finalising arrangements to deploy some health workers who had helped in the containment...
Ebola: African First Ladies to dispatch relief materials to Liberia, Sierra...
PRETORIA - The African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM), said on Saturday that it would dispatch relief materials soon to the Ebola Virus Diseases...
Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone revamps response team
BY BBC
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has announced a major shake-up of the body in charge of fighting the Ebola outbreak in the...
Ebola: UK cancels resumption of direct flights to Sierra Leone
The first direct flights to resume from the UK to Sierra Leone have been cancelled after the British government revoked Gambia Bird’s recently granted...
UK to send troops, aircraft and ship to tackle Ebola in...
LONDON - Britain is sending extra troops, aircraft and a naval vessel to Sierra Leone to help stem the spread of the Ebola virus,...
Spanish nurse is suspected of Ebola infection in Sierra Leone
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish Health Ministry official says a nurse who treated a Sierra Leone missionary for Ebola has tested positive for the...
Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in 1 day
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the...