Liberia country and climate development report
This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines Liberia’s development trajectory through the lens of the country’s vulnerability to climate change. It identifies Liberia’s development risks
Liberia
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Ebola cases may exceed 20,000, cautions WHO
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as doctors know about now, the WHO said on Thursday . A new plan to stop Ebola by the UN health agency
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Ebola causing huge damage to West Africa economies - development bank
The worst ever Ebola outbreak is causing enormous damage to West African economies as foreign businessmen quit the region, the African Development Bank said, while a leading medical charity branded the
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Ebola Fight Gets $150 Million From Development Bank
The African Development Bank will prepare an additional $150 million in funding for nations stricken by the Ebola virus as the World Health Organization plans to seek more resources and money to fight
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Ebola Fight Needs $430 Million to End Outbreak, WHO Says
More than $430 million will be needed to bring the worst Ebola outbreak on record under control, according to a draft document laying out the World Health Organization’s battle strategy. The plan sets
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Liberian slums barricaded as Ebola sets new record
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president’s orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that has
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Number of Ebola cases in West African rises to 2,240: UN
UNITED NATIONS - The number of Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, has reached 2,240 and a total of 1,229 deaths were also registered, UN spokesman Steaphane Dujarric told reporters
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Experimental Ebola drugs needed for 'up to 30,000 people'
Up to 30,000 people could have used experimental treatments or vaccines so far in the world's worst outbreak of Ebola currently plaguing West Africa, British scientists said on Wednesday. The calculation
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Ebola Virus Quarantine Sparks Clashes in Liberia
Liberian soldiers on Wednesday fired into a crowd of young men who were trying to escape a quarantine that cordoned off an Ebola-stricken neighborhood in the capital. The clash marks the most worrisome
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Liberia fights Ebola, death toll tops 1,200
Liberia battled on Tuesday to halt the spread of the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down ocean side capital Monrovia, recording the most new deaths as fatalities from the world’s worst outbreak of the
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Raid on Ebola quarantine centre
Seventeen patients infected with Ebola were unaccounted for on Sunday after they fled an armed raid on a quarantine centre in Monrovia by men who claimed the epidemic is a fiction. “They broke down