Emmanuel Freudenthal | Freelance journalist, and regular IRIN contributor Although Alsény Touré managed to escape the West African Ebola epidemic, the shadow of the disease still lingers over his...
DR Congo + 2 more
DR Congo + 2 more
Emmanuel Freudenthal | Freelance journalist, and regular IRIN contributor Although Alsény Touré managed to escape the West African Ebola epidemic, the shadow of the disease still lingers over his...
DR Congo + 3 more
Aimee Ansari August 2014 was a scary time in West Africa. Ebola was spreading rapidly and the international community was waking up to a disaster that ultimately killed more than 11,000 people. Read...
World + 6 more
Nearly dying in the Sahara doesn’t deter some migrants from trying again and again to reach Europe As the EU sets new policies and makes deals with African nations to deter hundreds of thousands of...
World + 21 more
The rise in man-made, protracted emergencies means millions are at risk of starving around the globe this year It’s a difficult new year for the humanitarian system and those reliant on it: a...
Liberia + 2 more
Three years on from the start of the West African Ebola epidemic, lessons are still being learned. And the most surprising are not coming from the scientists, but from the affected communities...
World + 4 more
29 décembre 2016 S’il est difficile de tirer un bilan positif au terme d’une année aussi tragique que 2016, quelques réussites sont à relever. Voici quelques-uns des succès enregistrés récemment sur...
World + 4 more
It’s hard to see the silver lining around a year as awful as 2016, but a few good news stories did emerge. Here are some recent successes from the humanitarian world, with our caveats: Read full...
Sierra Leone + 2 more
Dakar, 29 décembre 2015 (IRIN) - L’Afrique de l’Ouest a connu une année 2015 en dents de scie, avec l’apparition, la disparition et le retour d’Ebola. Mais aujourd’hui, après deux années de lutte...
Sierra Leone + 2 more
By Jennifer Lazuta DAKAR, 28 December 2015 (IRIN) - The past year has been a roller coaster ride for West Africa, with Ebola coming and going and coming and going, and then coming once again. But...
Sierra Leone + 2 more
DAKAR, 27 August 2015 (IRIN) - For the first time in more than a year, no one in either Sierra Leone or Liberia is being treated for Ebola, raising hopes that after more than 11,000 deaths and 28,000...
Guinea + 2 more
Monrovia/Dakar, 12 août 2015 (IRIN) - L'épidémie d'Ebola en Afrique de l'Ouest est peut-être sur le déclin, mais en Guinée, au Liberia et en Sierra Leone, les survivants ne sont pas au bout de leurs...
Sierra Leone + 2 more
MONROVIA/DAKAR, 10 August 2015 (IRIN) - West Africa’s Ebola outbreak might be winding down, but the struggles facing survivors in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are far from over. Beyond...
Sierra Leone + 2 more
By Jennifer Lazuta DAKAR, 13 July 2015 (IRIN) - An independent panel described the response of the World Health Organization (WHO) to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as “delayed” and “inadequate,”...
Sierra Leone + 2 more
Dakar, 22 juin 2015 (IRIN) - Par une cruelle ironie du sort, bon nombre des meilleurs médecins et personnels infirmiers de Guinée, du Liberia et de Sierra Leone ne seront pas là pour participer à la...
Sierra Leone + 2 more
DAKAR, 15 June 2015 (IRIN) - It is a cruel irony that many of the top doctors and nurses in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will not be around to help rebuild their health systems in the wake of...
GUECKEDOU, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) - “Life is back to normal, but everything has changed,” said 30-year-old Yawa Keterine Camara as she slowly stirred a boiling cauldron of sauce outside her mud-brick...
By Jennifer Lazuta GUECKEDOU, 8 May 2015 (IRIN) - Until Ebola, the main hospital in Gueckedou was often deserted. Now, on a Saturday afternoon, the place is bustling. Doctors and nurses move...
IRIN’s West Africa editor, Jennifer Lazuta, recently spent eight days in Guinea, traveling throughout the town of Gueckedou, in the heart of the country’s Forest Region, where the Ebola outbreak is...
By Jennifer Lazuta GUECKEDOU, 29 April 2015 (IRIN) - The odds were stacked against Guinea's vaccination teams. The initial side effects of the measles vaccine can easily be mistaken for the first...
GUECKEDOU, 28 April 2015 (IRIN) - Forty-six-year-old Maurice Ouendeno stares silently at the arm of his blue plastic lawn chair. He waits a few minutes before beginning his story. “They said we did...