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November 2014

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Brussels Airlines, has warned governments of the three most Ebola affected countries in the Mano River Union basin in West Africa, to ensure strict medical and prevention adherence in

Sierra Leone, through her Ambassador in South Korea, was one of the 29 African Countries that recently participated in the 7th Korea-Africa Business Forum that was recently staged in the Korean Capital of Seoul on

Mining Security & Crisis Management Forum | 12-13 November 2014 | Taj Hotel Cape Town, South Africa Senior level speakers from mining houses will gather to discuss the most pressing security concerns affecting the sector across the globe. Terrorism,

A new kind of protectionism is haunting the world: the spectre of Ebola protectionism. As the Ebola virus disease ravages the societies of the Mano River Union (MRU) states of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,

Washington, DC and Accra, Ghana, November 5, 2014—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a package of at least $450 million in commercial financing that will enable trade, investment, and employment in

President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has hailed the Minister of Lands Country Planning and the Environment Musa Tarawally for his outstanding role in containing the Ebola virus within the Moyamba District.  Musa Tarawally walking with

The President raised alarm at the Ebola statistics which shows over 4,000 people have been infected in the country; and said that especially the over 500 infection rates in Freetown, over 500 in Bombali, and

The Ebola virus has been waging a war on Sierra Leoneans since May, 2014 – just like RUF leader Foday Sankoh led his ‘rebels’ to ignite his war on the people in March, 1991, and

Freetown, Nov. 4, 014 (MOHS) - The Ministry of Health and Sanitation wishes to express its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and relatives of the Late Dr. Godfrey Alexandra Jonathan George, former Medical Superintendent

The Sierra Leone local tabloid, the “Trumpet” of October 16, 2014 edition has described the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Sierra Leonean born Zainab Bangura as a tough

The “bottleneck” in the Ebola War is the lack of adequate laboratories – as people who die have to wait a couple of days before the laboratories can determine and report to their relatives that

4 November 2014 – The UN envoy coordinating the global response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa said in the Liberian capital today that when national governments, partners and communities work together, “dramatic improvement”

11-4-14 - Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund,

Port Loko, Oct. 25, 014 (MOHS) - Paramount Chiefs in the Port Loko district have taken a vow to stop the growing denial on the Ebola outbreak in their various chiefdoms in the district. Assuring President

Penny Appeal, a humanitarian organization in collaboration with the Jamil Jalil Temne Central Mosque has donated 42 million Leones worth of food items to 41 Ebola survivors at the Hasting Treatment Center in the Western