The IAEA’s Rays of Hope initiative aims to widen access to life-saving cancer care where it is needed most; by helping low- and middle-income countries establish or expand medical imaging, ...

West African cocoa production, which has faced two successive below-average harvests, is likely to see another 10% decline in ...

Monrovia, Liberia – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its West Africa Regional Coordinating Centre, in collaboration with the Economic Community of West ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighboring countries and spark a larger ...

Scientists claim accident at US-funded biofacility may have caused 2014 West Africa outbreak The Ebola epidemic is believed to have come from a bat-filled tree in Guinea, but a new report says ...

West Africa is experiencing its highest number of Covid-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa said on Thursday. It’s a worrying trend in a region ...

The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was the largest to date, spreading to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. A total of of 28,646 suspected cases were reported along with 11,323 deaths.

The Ebola epidemic of West Africa in 2014 was unprecedented in both scale and duration. This is an oral history of the virus as told by researchers and those who worked on the ground to contain ...

For many African countries that learned difficult lessons from the West Africa Ebola outbreak in 2014, including the Democratic Republic of Congo which now sees an end in sight in the fight against ...

Five years after West Africa’s Ebola pandemic: Where are we now? Some health workers say they are better prepared for an Ebola outbreak, but survivors are not so sure.

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. During the fallout from the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people, one of the ...