Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Wednesday, 01 April 2015: The African Union Commission (AUC) supports the measures to be instituted in Guinea during the 45-day “health emergency”. The measures will serve to strengthen the capacities of […]
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea closed its border with Sierra Leone on Monday as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola, an official said. The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more […]
The talks on Iran's nuclear program continued in Switzerland Monday, with a Western diplomat saying there were three major outstanding issues as negotiators raced to beat their self-imposed deadline. The diplomat told reporters in Lausanne […]
Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the invasion of Houthi rebels on its bureau in the Yemeni capital. Armed Houthis stormed the bureau in Sanaa as guards reported that the rebels destroyed security cameras, smashed the […]
Swedish statistician and global health professor Hans Rosling spent three months working as an epidemiologist in the Liberian Health Ministry helping to tackle the Ebola crisis. Here he describes how a firefighting exercise became a […]
Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in Aden as Houthi rebels advance towards the city. Gunfire could be heard around the city centre, and security forces allied to the Houthis are reported […]
(By George Russell) The medical organization that sounded the first alarm about the deadly outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa last year has once again blasted the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) for […]
Tunisian authorities have arrested more than 20 suspected militants following the Bardo museum attack in which gunmen killed foreign tourists, leading to a nationwide security crackdown. Hundreds of Tunisians gathered for a Mass in the […]
The Islamic State group has released a new online video purporting to show the beheadings of three Kurdish peshmerga fighters, with a warning that it will execute "dozens more" prisoners unless the Kurds halt their […]
Police clashed with anti-austerity protesters Wednesday outside the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, ahead of a ceremony marking the opening of the twin-tower building. 14 police officers sustained minor injuries […]