World Health Organisation closes lab involved but says testing will continue at second facility The World Health Organisation (WHO) has shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola. At least 1,427 people have died and 2,615 have been infected since the disease was detected deep in the forests of south-eastern Guinea in March. Continue reading... ...
Repercussions have radiated from far-flung villages to financial markets, and from rural farmers to urban dollar boys When his neighbours began falling ill with Ebola, Sheikh Kallon felt fortunate that he was well enough to continue tending his farm deep in the forested interior of Sierra Leone. Then, one of his drinking buddies died of the disease, and Kallon's entire family was quarantined for 21...
World Health Organisation warns that Ebola is still spreading across west Africa nearly two months after outbreak was reported Relatives of Ebola patients in Sierra Leone have been removing their loved ones from community health centres despite protests from medical staff, amid warnings from the World Health Organisation that the deadly and highly infectious disease is still spreading across west Africa...
Trippy, electro-beat song created to help get message across about how to avoid incurable disease in Guinea and Liberia Few viruses can boast of being the inspiration for hit dance tunes. But then ebola which can kill up to 90% of victims, has no vaccine or cure, and causes horrific internal and external bleeding is not your average pathogen. When an epidemic struck west Africa's music-crazy nations...
Decision marks turning point in two-year battle between billionaire and Guinea's first democratically-elected government One of the world's wealthiest men was dealt a blow by one of the world's poorest countries on Wednesday when an investigation by the government of Guinea concluded that a company run by billionaire Beny Steinmetz should be stripped of lucrative mining concessions because it had obtained...
Virus has claimed 84 lives and jumped borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia, raising concerns that it could sweep across region Late last month, villagers in Guinea's remote south-eastern region of Nzérékoré were greeted by a sight so alarming that many barricaded themselves indoors. A group of doctors dressed in protective suits and helmets were visiting the centre of an Ebola epidemic...
Visas suspended for Muslim pilgrims from Guinea and Liberia due to contagious nature of deadly disease Saudi Arabia has announced the suspension of visas for Muslim pilgrims from Guinea and Liberia, two countries hit by an outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic. The Saudi health ministry recommended the measure "due to the danger of the disease and its highly contagious" nature, the state...
Guinea faces an epidemic of a 'magnitude never before seen', with nearly 80 deaths so far. So what's being done to stop its spread? The medical aid charity Médecins sans Frontières warned this week that Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic of a magnitude never before seen as the nations president appealed for calm amid a rising death toll. Since January, Guinea health authorities have reported...
Médecins sans Frontières says lethal virus has broken out in areas hundreds of miles apart, while death toll passes 80 Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart , the medical charity Médecins sans Frontières said. The warning from an organisation used to tackling Ebola in...
Neighbouring Senegal closes borders as EU pledges 500,000 in race to stop virus spreading towards capital Conakry Guinea is racing to contain a deadly Ebola epidemic spreading from its southern forests to the capital Conakry, as neighbouring Senegal closed its border. The EU pledged 500,000 (£413,000) to fight the contagion at the weekend, while the Senegalese interior ministry said border crossings...
Health ministry says 80 cases have been reported nationwide, 59 fatal, and outbreak has spread from southern forests An ebola epidemic that has already killed dozens of people in Guinea's southern forests has spread to the capital, Conakry, the United Nations children's agency has said. At least 59 out of 80 people who have contracted ebola in the west African country have died. Unicef said the virus...
Frederic Cilins admits obstructing investigation into allegations Guinean officials were bribed into awarding mining rights A former adviser to a mining company controlled by Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz has admitted obstructing a criminal investigation into allegations that Guinean government officials were bribed into awarding lucrative mining rights. Frederic Cilins, a 51-year-old French...
The medical charity Médecins sans Frontières warns that Guinea faces an epidemic of the deadly ebola virus on an unprecedented scale. Health specialists wearing protective clothing work in an isolation ward as they try to treat patients diagnosed with ebola. The tropical virus leads to haemorrhagic fever, causing muscle pain, weakness, vomiting, diarrhoea and, in severe cases, organ failure and unstoppable...
Frenchman is accused destroying evidence of how an Israeli billionaire gained control of a mountain rich in iron ore in Guinea A battle over one of the world's richest mineral deposits has taken a dramatic turn after the FBI announced the arrest of a representative of the billionaire businessman who had acquired it in deal that raised eyebrows, even within the buccaneering world of African mining....
t tackle this problem alone – corruption is embedded in the western institutions that have helped bleed our country dry Less than seven months ago I was invited to the G8 in London by David Cameron to make the case for tackling corruption through transparency. I participated because it was clear the world's wealthiest leaders finally understood that to deal with this complex problem,...
flags. The three countries to be banned were warned last year that the European commission was preparing to end imports of their fish and fish products, because of concerns that they had failed to take action over piracy and illegal fishing. It is the first time imports have been banned as a result of the widespread global trade in landing fish for which vessels do not have the correct fishing permits....
s flagship population report. If current trends continue, the number of girls under 15 having babies in this region is projected to increase from 1.8 in 2010 to 3 million over the next 17 years. This would take the estimated total number of under-18s giving birth in sub-Saharan Africa to more than 16 million by 2030, up from 10.1 million in 2010. The report , Motherhood in childhood: facing the challenge...
s history, voters had to wait more than four months between the two rounds of voting in the presidential election. Then, Alpha Condé , a longstanding opposition leader, gained a narrow majority over the former prime minister, Cellou Dalein Diallo , despite the latter's substantial first-round lead. This time, it took almost three weeks for the independent national electoral commission to announce the...
s wealthiest men has spread to the UK and Channel Islands, where law enforcement officials have begun examining a multi-billion dollar mining deal struck with the government of an impoverished African nation. The decision by the Serious Fraud Office , in London, and the Financial Investigation Unit , in Guernsey, to open inquiries into the deal that the company of Beny Steinmetz struck with Guinea,...
s Simandou mining deal Police in Switzerland and France carried out a number of co-ordinated raids on properties linked to one of the world's richest men as part of a global investigation into allegations of corruption surrounding a multibillion dollar mining deal. Officers in Geneva raided the offices of a firm that provides management services for BSGR, a company controlled by Israeli billionaire...