Tag: Liberia
Ebola Threatening Liberia’s Existence, Minister Warns
Ebola is threatening the very existence of Liberia as the killer virus spreads like “wild fire”, the defence minister warned…
Nurses go on strike in Ebola-hit Liberia
Nurses at Liberia’s largest hospital went on strike on Monday, demanding better pay and equipment to protect them against a…
Ebola: BA stops flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone until 2015
British Airways extended to 2015 its suspension of flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone due to concerns about the spread…
Ebola: USAID announces medical aid to Liberia
Eromosele Ebhomele The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has announced that it airlifted more than 16 tons of…
Liberian medic treated with experimental Ebola drug dies
A Liberian doctor treated with experimental American anti-Ebola serum ZMapp has died, the west African nation said on Monday. Abraham…
Liberia’s Ebola clampdown turns violent as official evacuated
Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia’s capital Wednesday when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on…
Liberian Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Ebola Protesters
Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd agitating to leave a…
Liberia president orders curfew over Ebola outbreak
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced a nighttime curfew from Wednesday and the quarantine of two neighbourhoods, including one in…
Missing Ebola patients found in Liberia
Liberia said Tuesday it had found 17 Ebola patients who had fled an attack on their clinic, sparking a panicked…
Attack on Liberia isolation clinic highlights Ebola denial
Seventeen Ebola patients are missing after fleeing an attack on an isolation ward in Monrovia by armed youths claiming the…
Armed men free 20 Ebola infected patients in Liberia
Armed men claiming that “there’s no Ebola” in Liberia raided a quarantine centre for the deadly disease in Monrovia overnight,…
UN to feed up to one million people hit by Ebola
The United Nations is to fly in food aid for up to a million people affected by the Ebola outbreak…
Evacuated Spanish priest with Ebola dies
An elderly Spanish priest infected with Ebola died in a Madrid hospital on Tuesday, five days after being evacuated from…
US sends Ebola drug to Liberia, West Africa
In a bid to curb the Ebola Virus, Liberia will receive an untested experimental drug, ZMapp, to treat people infected…
Nigeria’s first Ebola victim a ‘ crazy man’ – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has labeled the man who brought Ebola Virus into Nigeria a ‘crazy man’. Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian…