Tag: Africa

FILE- In this file photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, people pass a banner reading 'STOP EBOLA' forming part of Sierra Leone's Ebola free campaign in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. A second case of Ebola emerged Thursday Jan. 21, 2016 in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over, with a close relative of the first victim testing positive for the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people, authorities said.

Senate committee advances pandemics bill as Ebola threat rises

Kimberly Leonard · May 23, 2018 3:24 pm

Alex Azar is a former health official at HHS, where he served as deputy secretary under former President George W. Bush. He also is a former top executive for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

US to contribute additional $7 million to Congo’s Ebola fight

Kimberly Leonard · May 22, 2018 1:57 pm

In this photo taken Monday, May 14, 2018, members of a Red Cross team don protective clothing before heading out to look for suspected victims of Ebola, in Mbandaka, Congo. Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to Mbandaka, a crossroads city of more than 1 million people, in a troubling turn that marks one of the few times the vast, impoverished country has encountered the lethal virus in an urban area.

Health officials begin using experimental vaccine to fight Ebola in Congo

Kimberly Leonard · May 21, 2018 2:18 pm

In this photo taken on Sunday, May 13, 2018, health care workers wear virus protective gear at a treatment center in Bikoro Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo's latest Ebola outbreak has spread to a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas. Two suspected cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in the Wangata health zones that include Mbandaka, the capital of northwestern Equateur province. The city is about 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Bikoro, the rural area where the outbreak was announced last week, said Congo's Health Minister Oly Ilunga.

Ebola spreads to large city in Congo

Kimberly Leonard · May 17, 2018 2:04 pm

Health worker wearing protective clothing and equipment. Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976.

Experimental Ebola vaccine heads to Congo as death toll reaches 19

Kimberly Leonard · May 14, 2018 6:27 pm

National Security

Pentagon looking into reports Somalia raid killed five civilians

Travis J. Tritten · May 11, 2018 5:33 pm

Former President Bill Clinton wipes his eye as his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, concedes her defeat to Republican Donald Trump on Nov. 9, 2016.

One dead from Ebola outbreak in Congo, health minister says

Melissa Quinn · May 10, 2018 8:59 pm

From left: Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35, of Puyallup, Wash.; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39, of Springboro, Ohio; Sgt. La David Johnson of Miami Gardens, Fla.; and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29, of Lyons, Ga. All four were killed in Niger, when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed by militants believed linked to the Islamic State group.

National Security

Pentagon finds several failures led to Niger attack

Associated Press · May 10, 2018 5:25 pm

FILE - In this undated colorized transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the CDC shows an Ebola virus virion. Health authorities are investigating nine suspected cases of Ebola in a remote corner of northern Congo, including two deaths, the country's health minister said Friday May 12, 2017.

Congo confirms two cases of Ebola

Robert King · May 8, 2018 4:56 pm

Donna Processing Center in Donna, Texas

National Security

China has used lasers to injure US air crews flying over Djibouti, Pentagon says

Travis J. Tritten · May 3, 2018 5:12 pm

President Trump speaks during a news conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Trump says he and Nigerian president did not discuss ‘s–thole’ comment on African nations

Melissa Quinn · April 30, 2018 6:45 pm

Mac Thornberry orders leak investigation over Niger report

Travis J. Tritten · April 26, 2018 5:35 pm