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IMF says it will help Zimbabwe produce debt repayment plan

YoopyaSep 30, 2014September 2, 20230

This and the appreciation of the South African rand, the major currency of Zimbabwe’s (main) trading partner, has caused a liquidity crunch that has weakened

Rains complicate delivery of Ebola supplies in West Africa

YoopyaSep 30, 2014July 29, 20230

By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The rainy season in West Africa is compounding difficulties in getting supplies delivered and new treatment centres

Liberia’s top doctor in quarantine after assistant dies of Ebola

YoopyaSep 28, 2014July 15, 20230

MONROVIA (Reuters) – Liberia’s chief medical officer, who is also a deputy health minister, has put herself in quarantine as a precaution against Ebola after

Obama says “significant gap” in global effort to fight Ebola

YoopyaSep 26, 2014July 15, 20230

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that there was still a significant gap between where we are

Collateral death toll expected to soar in Africa’s Ebola crisis

YoopyaSep 26, 2014July 15, 20230

LONDON, Sept 26 – By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent (Reuters) – Deaths from infectious diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are likely to

Ebola spread stabilising in Guinea as toll nears 3,000 -WHO

YoopyaSep 25, 2014July 15, 20230

By Tom Miles and Umaru Fofana GENEVA/FREETOWN (Reuters) – The spread of Ebola seems to have stabilised in Guinea, one of three West African states

Ebola toll nears 3,000 as medics face bed shortage, resistance

YoopyaSep 25, 2014July 15, 20230

GENEVA (Reuters) – At least 2,917 people have died of Ebola out of 6,263 cases in the five West African countries affected by the disease,

Sierra Leone To Cordon Off 3 Areas To Stop Ebola

YoopyaSep 25, 2014July 15, 20230

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s government says a nationwide lockdown revealed that an Ebola outbreak is worse than thought and ordered three more

Nigeria says 135 Boko Haram fighters surrender, “fake leader” dead

YoopyaSep 25, 2014July 15, 20230

MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) – More than 130 Boko Haram Islamist fighters have surrendered to Nigerian forces, and a man posing as the group’s leader in

Sierra Leone wraps up three-day Ebola lockdown

YoopyaSep 22, 2014July 16, 20230

By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leoneans on Sunday celebrated the end of a three-day lockdown aimed at stemming the world’s worst ever Ebola