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Liberian leader sees signs Ebola in decline but aid too slow

YoopyaOct 9, 2014July 15, 20230

By Daniel Flynn GBARNGA Liberia (Reuters) – International aid to battle the Ebola epidemic in Liberia is arriving too slowly, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said

Emergency centers needed to contain Ebola in West Africa: U.N

YoopyaOct 9, 2014July 15, 20230

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The worst outbreak of Ebola on record can be contained if countries quickly build and staff treatment centers

Volunteers carry bodies in a centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres for Ebola patients in Kailahun

YoopyaOct 9, 2014July 15, 20230

GENEVA (Reuters) – The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 3,879 people out of 8,033 cases by the end of Oct. 5, with no

Regional leaders step up Boko Haram fight with troops, command centre

YoopyaOct 8, 2014July 15, 20230

Niamey (Reuters) – Leaders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Benin on Tuesday announced plans to step up the fight against Boko Haram with an additional

StanChart to hire 1,000 more staff in Africa

YoopyaOct 8, 2014July 25, 20230

LONDON (Reuters) – Standard Chartered plans to hire at least 1,000 more staff in Africa in the next couple of years, an increase of more

Kenyan president arrives at global court as allies call for trial delay

YoopyaOct 8, 2014July 25, 20230

By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Kenya’s president arrived at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday for a hearing over his indictment on charges

Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared

Briton denies guilt in South African honeymoon murder trial

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – Millionaire British businessman Shrien Dewani on Monday denied arranging his bride’s murder during their honeymoon in South Africa, four years after she was

Nine U.N. troops killed in worst attack yet on Mali force

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – Nine United Nations peacekeepers in Mali were killed when heavily armed gunmen on motorbikes ambushed their convoy on Friday, the deadliest attack yet

Ebola death toll rises to 3,439: WHO

YoopyaOct 5, 2014September 7, 20230

GENEVA (Reuters) – The world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed 3,439 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. There had