Tag: West Africa
Kenya shut borders to Ebola hit countries
Kenya on Saturday became the latest country to ban travellers from parts of Ebola-hit west Africa as Nigeria scrambled to…
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…
Germany urges nationals to leave Ebola-hit countries
Germany on Wednesday called on its nationals to leave Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as the death toll from the…
Ebola: Jonathan urges greater cooperation among W/A countries
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has called for strategic collaboration among West African countries to control and contain the Ebola Virus…
Japan aid agency pulls staff from Ebola-hit nations
Japan’s foreign aid agency said Tuesday it was evacuating two dozen staff from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as the…
Global Ebola death toll passes 1,000 – WHO
The Ebola virus has killed 1,013 people and infected another 1,848, latest World Health Organisation data showed. The fatalities include…
Eight Chinese quarantined as Ebola panic heightens
Eight Chinese medical workers who treated Ebola patients have been quarantined in Sierra Leone, as health experts grapple with ethical…
Nigeria, others feel effects of battle against Ebola
West Africa was counting the cost of measures to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic on Sunday, as unprecedented restrictions caused…
Zambia bars entry for citizens from Ebola countries
Zambia has banned the entry of citizens from countries hit by the deadly Ebola virus, which is ravaging nations to…
Ebola sparks states of emergency across west Africa
Overwhelmed west African nations called states of emergency on Thursday as the death toll from a fast-spreading Ebola epidemic neared…
Philippines monitors arrivals from west Africa for Ebola
The Philippines said Friday people arriving from west African countries hit by the Ebola outbreak would be monitored for a…
US hospital prepares to receive Ebola patient
A hospital in the southern United States said Thursday it was preparing to receive an Ebola patient “within the next…
Ebola Virus Hits Lagos
By Kazeem Ugbodaga The deadly Ebola Virus Disease which has killed over over 500 people in West Africa has hit…
Hollande visits future French force site in west Africa
President Francois Hollande wrapped up a three-day west African tour on Saturday with a visit to the future headquarters of…
West Africa Ebola toll hits 603 as 68 more die
The death toll in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has risen to 603, the World Health Organization (WHO)) said on Tuesday,…
W. African nations in crisis talks as Ebola spreads
Health ministers from across western Africa gathered on Wednesday to plan “drastic action” against the world’s deadliest-ever Ebola epidemic as…
Ebola crisis: EU increases emergency funding
The European Commission said it is allocating an additional 500, 000 euros to enhance interventions aimed at curbing the worsening…
West African Countries Sign MOU On Terrorism
Nigeria’s Federal Government said on Wednesday that heads of external intelligence agencies across the West African sub-region including Cameroon have…
West Africa mobilises against Ebola virus
West African countries have mobilised against an epidemic of haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives…
ECOWAS approves single customs bloc
Leaders of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on Friday to implement a single customs tariff…
BA appoints Nigerian commercial manager for W/Africa
British Airways (BA) has appointed Mr Kola Olayinka as its Commercial Manager for the West African English speaking countries. The…
Report: West Africa now world’s piracy capital
West Africa has overtaken Somalia as the world’s piracy hot-spot with 966 sailors attacked last year, a report by the…
Mali crisis disrupts education of 700,000 kids
The education of some 700,000 children in Mali has been disrupted by the crisis rocking the Sahelian country, the UN…
3rd generation of Al Qaeda causing havoc in Nigeria
Retired CIA veteran Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert at the Brookings Institution think tank who has advised four US presidents,…
West African defence chiefs talk Mali force
West African defence chiefs met in Abidjan on Saturday to discuss “boosting” an African force in Mali aimed at supporting…
Glo Academy: Ghana’s Mensah, Danquah Evicted
Two Ghanaian youth footballers, Samuel Opoku Mensah, a native of Offinso Mpehi and Charles Addai Danquah, from Kyekyewere near Obuasi…
West African leaders to meet over Mali
An emergency summit of leaders from West African bloc ECOWAS has been set for Wednesday in Abidjan as countries in…
Malian rebels derail peace talks
One of the armed Islamist groups occupying northern Mali, Ansar Dine, said Thursday it was revoking a pledge to end…
Alobo Evicted At Glo Academy
Gabriel Alobo, one of the youth footballers in the Glo Soccer Academy has been evicted from the TV Reality Show.…
Ghana’s voting stretches to second day
Voting in Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary polls on Friday was extended to the following day due to delays linked to…