A year ago the World Health Organization declared the Ebola epidemic in Liberia over. But though the immediate crisis may have passed, Liberia still faces huge challenges in recovering. Two devastating civil wars in…
"They went for my daughter," says Azango. "She was 9-years-old by then." As secret societies go, Liberia's Sande society has a most painful and dangerous initiation ritual: female genital mutilation (FGM). That practice was thrust…
Short on doctors, tech aids Liberia in outbreak. There is little doubt Liberia lacked the medical staff to confront the Ebola outbreak. With only 200 doctors in a country of 4 million, there is only…
Since our last program on Ebola, the death toll from the disease has more than doubled to 4,800. U.S. and Spanish aid workers sickened by Ebola also transmitted it to medical workers in the U.S. and…
“I was depressed to the point that I actually wanted to die because of what I was going through.” The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has already taken more than 3,000 lives. There is no…
Police in Guinea have arrested 27 people for the killing of a group of Ebola health education workers and journalists, news outlets including Agence France-Presse reported. Molou Chérif, and Sidiki Sidibé of a community radio…
Warning: This photo essay contains graphic images that may be disturbing to some viewers. Ahmed Jallanzo spent 16 years in the Liberian capital of Monrovia working as a street photographer before he became a photojournalist in…
In the fight against Ebola, the death of a victim is only the beginning. The current outbreak of the disease has killed at least 2,461 people in West Africa—and it is the bodies of the…
There has been a lot of media coverage lately dedicated to the spread of the Ebola virus in Africa, which is estimated to have killed at least 2,300 people. The outbreak began in December 2013,…
With no vaccine or effective treatments, teaching people to avoid infection is key. This spring, Craig Manning of the Centers for Disease Control was in the West African country of Guinea, responding to the country’s…
