Tag: Liberia
Ban appoints Nigerian as Force Commander, UN mission in Liberia
United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on Friday, announced the appointment of Major General Salihu Uba of Nigeria as the Force…
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Weah, ex-Liberian world football star wins senate seat
Former world soccer player of the year George Weah has won a seat in Liberia’s Senate to represent the capital,…
Fourth UN staff contracts Ebola in Liberia
A fourth member of the UN mission in Liberia, the country hardest-hit by the Ebola epidemic, has been hospitalised after…
160 Chinese health workers in Liberia to fight Ebola
A large team of Chinese health workers arrived in Liberia to boost the Ebola fight as a US-based doctor infected…
Liberia ends Ebola state of emergency
Liberia said on Thursday it had lifted a state of emergency imposed for its “very survival” three months ago as…
Liberia health workers to go on strike over Ebola pay
Healthcare workers in Liberia, the country hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, will go on strike from Monday to demand…
Ebola strikes fourth American in Liberia
A US television network prepared Friday to evacuate a cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia, as the UN’s pointman flew…
Sirleaf angry over countryman with Ebola in Texas
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said she is “very angry” with a fellow Liberian, Thomas Duncan, who travelled to…
Sirleaf sees signs of Ebola ‘stabilisation’
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Wednesday the Ebola outbreak that has devastated her country was showing signs of stabilising…
US hospital bungled report of Africa travel in Ebola case
The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States initially told a nurse he had traveled in Africa but…
Children who lost parents to Ebola shunned by families – UNICEF
Thousands of children who have lost parents to the west African Ebola epidemic risk are being shunned by frightened and…
Liberia to send 1,000 Ebola beds to Monrovia
Liberia announced plans Sunday for a four-fold increase in beds for Ebola patients in its overwhelmed capital Monrovia, as US…
Obama To Outline Battle Plans Against Ebola
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to detail on Tuesday a plan to boost his country’s involvement in mitigating the…
Liberia dismisses 10 officials for abandoning Ebola fight
Liberia’s leader Sunday said she had sacked 10 senior government officials who defied an order to return to the west…
UN vows not to abandon Ebola-hit Liberia
The United Nations has vowed its peacekeepers will not abandon Liberia and will “stay the course” despite the Ebola epidemic…