VIDEO: Sentamu appeal to Ebola-hit countries

Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for Africa.

Record 10,500 tons of seed to be delivered for April planting season

In a concerted push to revive agriculture and avert hunger in Ebola-hit countries, the World Bank Group has mobilized up to $15 million in emergency financing to provide a record 10,500 tons of maize and rice seed to over 200,000 farmers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in time for the April planting season.

More than one million people could go hungry unless they...

Andrew Harding revisits the town of Kigbal in Sierra Leone to see if the Ebola crisis has been addressed.

>Ebola shares the nasty distinction with HIV/Aids of not having a cure, or a vaccine.Ebola also kills you very much faster, and it doesn’t need anything more intimate than a handshake to infect.

By Owen Mwandumbya, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Tanzania has urged SADC member countries to effectively strategize the bitter war against Ebola pandemic which has so far claimed lives of more than four thousand people in at least five countries in Africa.
The call was made by Hon. Mohamed Habib Mnyaa while moving motion at the 36th Plenary Assembly of the SADC Parliamentary Forum being held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
Hon. Mnyaa said, the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is not only a deadly health...

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon launches an urgent appeal for funds to help fight Ebola after a drive for donations falls short of its target.

The government of China has heeded President Jakaya Kikwete’s appeal during his state visit to the country in October, to the outside world to join Africa in the fight against Ebola.

Rebuilding Liberia's devastated healthcare system

Schools need to rapidly reopen in three Ebola-hit West African states as some five million children are being denied an education, a campaign group says.