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Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:19:21 GMT
Questions and Answers on the New Ebola Outbreak
[MSF] On 14 February 2021, the Guinean authorities declared a new Ebola outbreak. As one of the key medical organisations responding in the huge 2014 -- 2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, MSF immediately started mobilizing a team of Ebola-experienced s...

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:34:44 GMT
Why Ebola Is Back in Guinea and Why the Response Must Be Different This Time
[The Conversation Africa] New reports of Ebola in Guinea are causing anxiety given the history of the West Africa outbreak of 2014-2016. This was the largest Ebola outbreak reported to date - 28,000 cases were recorded, including 11,000 deaths. It or...

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:24:49 GMT
Why Is Piracy Increasing On the Gulf of Guinea?
[DW] Nowhere on Earth do pirates strike more often than the Gulf of Guinea, where more than 130 sailors were taken hostage last year. The area is more dangerous than the Somali coast. The EU wants to do something about it.

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:03:58 GMT
Threat of Double Epidemic Worries Guineans As Ebola Vaccines Dispatched
[RFI] Some 11,000 vaccines for the Ebola virus are expected to arrive in Guinea this weekend, as a new outbreak has left five people dead and almost 200 contact cases. The stark reminder of the last West African outbreak comes with added complication...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:18:53 GMT
Sierra Leone, Guinea Sign Communique, Commit to Mutual Security, Public Health and Socio-Economic Interests
[Sierra Leone Government] His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has concluded his 2-day working visit to Conakry where the two countries committed to reopening on Thursday 18 Feb the land border that was closed since early last year due to COV...

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:48:57 GMT
Guinea Confirms Ebola Outbreak as Four Die From Disease
[East African] Guinea has announced an outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic after second laboratory tests on samples from victims came back positive for the virus.

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:43:59 GMT
West Africa Braces for Ebola Outbreak As Seven Cases Confirmed in Guinea
[RFI] West Africa is facing the first reported resurgence of Ebola since the end of a devastating outbreak in 2016. Guinea Conakry is dealing with a situation described by the national health authorities as an "epidemic" after seven cases were confir...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 04:53:45 GMT
Health Ministry Officially Declares New Ebola Outbreak
[DW] Guinea's Health Ministry has now confirmed a new outbreak of the rare but deadly virus that causes fever, aches, diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding. DR Congo has also reported cases.

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:56:21 GMT
Seven Infected As New Ebola Outbreak Declared in Southern Guinea
[UN News] Guinean health authorities have declared an outbreak of Ebola in a rural community in the south of the country, with at least seven people infected, three of whom died, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Sunday.

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:18:05 GMT
WHO Staff Are On the Ground in Guinea
[WHO] Brazzaville/Conakry -- -- Health authorities in Guinea today declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N'Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first time the...

Sun, 14 Feb 2021 09:03:17 GMT
Four Die in Suspected Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
[Nation] Freetown -- Guinean authorities on Saturday said four people had died from suspected Ebola virus complications, sparking fears of the return of the deadly viral disease in West Africa, four years after the world's largest outbreak of the dis...

Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:30:49 GMT
Four Die In New Ebola Outbreak
[DW] Guinea's Health Ministry is "really concerned" over a recent outbreak of the rare but deadly virus that causes fever, aches, diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding. DR Congo has also reported cases.

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:53:50 GMT
CHAN 2020 - Rwanda to Face Guinea in Last Eight
[New Times] The national football team, Amavubi, will take on Guinea in the quarter-finals of the ongoing 6th African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Cameroon.

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:40:36 GMT
Nationals of Kenya, Liberia, Guinea Face Trafficking Trial in U.S.
[DOJ] Indictment Alleges Conspiracy to Smuggle at Least 190 Kilograms of Rhinoceros Horns and at Least 10 Tons of Elephant Ivory Valued at More Than $7 Million

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:53:50 GMT
'It's Guinea Now On Stars Sniperscope'
[Daily News] After reviving hopes of reaching into the quarterfinals of Africa Nations Championship (CHAN), Taifa Stars Head Coach Etienne Ndayiragije said he now works out a plan to gun down Guinea.

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:06:10 GMT
Swiss Jail Mining Magnate for Bribing Mamadie Touré
[Public Eye] At the conclusion of a widely followed trial, French-Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz was today found guilty of bribery of foreign public officials and document forgery by the Geneva criminal court.



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