Guinea began voting Sunday in the first local elections since the end of the era of military dictatorship following eight years of delays. The municipal council elections, originally scheduled for 2010, have been repeatedly delayed due to a lack of funds, political infighting and the 2013-2016 Ebola crisis. Failing schools, unemployment, electricity shortages and corruption […]
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A ship carrying 22 Indian crew and 13,500 tons of gasoline is missing in the Gulf of Guinea after contact was lost in Benin on Friday, the company and India’s minister of external affairs said on Sunday. The Gulf of Guinea has become an increasing target for pirates who steal cargo and demand ransoms, even […]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Republic of Guinea Ebola-free again, today. “Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease tested negative for the second time,” WHO said in a statement. “Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to ensure that any new cases are identified […]
Read More [su_dropcap]A[/su_dropcap] five-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola in Liberia just days after his mother died of the virus in the second flare-up to hit West Africa in recent weeks, the health ministry said on Sunday, Reuters report. A 30-year-old woman died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the […]
Read More IN the latest flare up of Ebola virus that has killed more than 11,300 people in Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013, a fourth person has died as the WHO declared a flare-up of the virus in neighbouring Sierra Leone over “The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment center in Nzerekore is […]
Read More TWO people from the same family have died from Ebola in Guinea, the government said Thursday, as the WHO declared a flare-up of the virus in neighbouring Sierra Leone over. Test samples from the two patients “revealed the presence of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus”, the government said in a statement, while officials feared further suspected […]
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Guinea has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there. Guineans are expected to celebrate the landmark with concerts and fireworks. The disease killed more than 2,500 people in the country and a further 9,000 in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Sierra Leone was declared free […]
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