Tag: Liberia

A woman, center, reacts as she and others celebrate on the streets outside of West Point, that have been closed in by Liberian security forces to stop all movement the past week in a attempt to control the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Liberia says it will open up a slum in its capital where thousands of people were barricaded to contain the spread of Ebola. Information Minister Lewis Brown says lifting the quarantine Saturday morning will not mean there is no Ebola in the West Point Slum. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberian Ebola survivor praises experimental drug

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 30, 2014 3:13 pm

Liberian security forces with riot gear stop people from leaving the West Point area, that has been hardest hit by the Ebola virus spreading in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. A Liberian doctor who was among three Africans to receive an experimental Ebola drug has died, the country's information minister said Monday.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia: Doctor given experimental Ebola drug dies

JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEHROB GILLIES · August 25, 2014 10:02 pm

Woman from West Point, carry water on their heads as they sell water to fellow residents, in one of the areas where the Ebola virus has claimed lives in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Calm returned Thursday to a slum in the Liberian capital that was sealed off in the government's attempt to halt the spread of Ebola, a day after clashes erupted between residents and security forces, but now the tens of thousands of residents worried about getting food. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia gives food in slum sealed to stop Ebola

Washington Examiner · August 21, 2014 10:08 pm

Liberian slums barricaded as Ebola sets new record

JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEHWADE WILLIAMS · August 20, 2014 9:11 pm

In this undated handout photo provided by Medecins Sans Frontieres, local staff and healthcare workers for Doctors Without Borders, exit an isolation ward in Guekedou, Guinea. For doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West Africa, working in head-to-toe protective gear in muddy health clinics is often the least of their problems, as many also struggle to convince people they are there to stop Ebola, not spread it. (AP Photo/MSF)

Liberia president declares Ebola curfew

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 19, 2014 11:58 pm

Did the federal government misplace almost $70 million in Africa?

Kelly Cohen · August 19, 2014 8:57 pm

Liberian Police dressed in riot gear deploy at a MSF, 'Doctors Without Borders', Ebola treatment center, in the rain, as they provide security in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Liberia's armed forces were given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighboring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of Ebola, local newspaper Daily Observer reported Monday. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Growing unrest sets back Liberia’s Ebola fight

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 5:59 pm

People pass by Ebola virus health warning signs, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including blood-stained sheets and mattresses. The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought from other parts of the capital to the holding center, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia: Ebola fears rise as clinic is looted

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 17, 2014 4:48 pm

Health workers move the body of a fellow health worker who was found dead in a seat, and who they believe passed away from the Ebola virus, at one of the largest hospitals in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people in West Africa could last another six months, the Doctors Without Borders charity group said Friday. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia expands Ebola treatment in capital

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 5:15 pm

A Liberian woman holds up a pamphlet with guidance on how to prevent the Ebola virus from spreading, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Liberian officials faced a difficult choice Thursday: deciding which handful of Ebola patients will receive an experimental drug that could prove life-saving, ineffective or even harmful. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: Ebola toll may ‘vastly underestimate’ crisis

JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEHSARAH DiLORENZO · August 14, 2014 10:51 pm

Liberian ex-soccer star Weah records Ebola song

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 11, 2014 12:59 pm

A Liberian soldiers stops people at a security checkpoint setup to lamp down on people traveling due to the Ebola virus, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Soldiers clamped down on people trying to travel to Liberia's capital Thursday from rural areas hard-hit by the Ebola virus hours after the president declared a national state of emergency. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Africans face long wait for unproven Ebola drug

Jonathan PayeLayleh · August 7, 2014 7:08 pm