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Death toll nears 500 following landslide in Sierra Leone
One of the worst flooding disasters in Africa has displaced thousands of residents in Sierra Leone and brought the death toll close to 500. Flooding in the area resulted in a landslide last week when a side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed on Monday, according to Al Jazeera.
16 year-old Sierra Leone Native Kelvin Doe ASTOUNDS MIT Experts with Self-Taught Engineering Skills
16 year-old Sierra Leone native Kelvin Doe is the youngest person to be invited to MIT’s “Visiting Practitioner’s Program.” His accomplishments are astounding; he runs his own community radio station, and he created a battery that provides light for homes in his neighborhood.
Kalamazoo area students headed to Sierra Leone: Urban Youth for Africa program taking 10 this year
Kalamazoo area students headed to Sierra Leone: Urban Youth for Africa program taking 10 this year Fritz Klug, Kalamazoo Gazette | August 3, 201o When 19-year-old Howard Hughes was in Sierra Leone last summer, he met a young man named Santigie, whose sandals would fall off whenever he ran. Hughes gave him a pair of […]
US suspends visas from Myanmar and Lao after they refuse to take deportees
As the Trump administration continues to detain and deport citizens in the name of national security, two Southeast Asian countries are refusing to accept deportees from the U.S. As a result, the U.S. is suspending visa issuance to citizens of Myanmar-formerly known as Burma-and Lao.
Hits and misses of President Obama’s final State of the Union address
Tuesday night was President Barack Obama’s last State of the Union. Full remarks: Watch @POTUS deliver his final State of the Union address. #SOTU https://t.co/AOyWjdFk4O — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) January 13, 2016 Appropriate for the moment, his speech was retrospective, examining the work he was able to accomplish, and some of his shortcomings, over the […]
World Health Organization: “Guinea Ebola Outbreak Over”
On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, The World Health Organization (WHO) made a statement declaring the Ebola outbreak in Guinea over. WHO declared that the human-to-human transmission has ended in the country because there were 42 consecutive days with zero cases since the last person with the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was confirmed. Guinea is now […]
Second Ebola patient dies in U.S.
An American doctor who was diagnosed with the Ebola virus has died. Dr. Martin Salia was flown to Nebraska from Sierra Leone over the weekend for treatment. Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted the disease in Liberia and traveled to Dallas, died last month.
U.S. patient who died from Ebola settles with Dallas hospital
The family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S., has reached a settlement with the hospital that treated him and admitting to making mistakes in addressing his care. Les Weisbrod, who is representing Duncan’s family, told reporters the hospital “wanted to do the right thing.”
An anti-Ebola march in SW Philadelphia: “I’m a West African – not a virus.”
The following piece is from Philly. It was written by Jeff Gammage. By: Jeff Gammage Practically everyone at the march had a story about people who refused to shake hands or moved to another bus seat when they realized they were near a Liberian. “Once they hear our accent, people try to avoid us,” […]
World Health Organization declares Nigeria Ebola-free
The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the deadly Ebola virus after a determined doctor and thousands of officials helped end the outbreak that is still wreaking havoc on other parts of West Africa.
Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan succumbs to virus
Thomas Eric Duncan, the lone man diagnosed with Ebola who traveled to the U.S. from Liberia, died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. He had been in critical condition after being diagnosed with Ebola in mid-September.