BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? More than 5,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak that is ravaging West Africa, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday, marking another grisly toll in the epidemic. T...

As Nigeria heaves a collective sigh of relief after being declared free of Ebola, one woman is being widely praised for helping to ensure a more devastating outbreak was avoided. Dr Stella Ameyo Adadev...

While the Ebola crisis continues unabated in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, there was better news elsewhere in West Africa on Monday, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Nigeria free of ...

While the Ebola crisis continues unabated in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, there was better news elsewhere in West Africa on Monday, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Nigeria free of ...

(Source: African Development Bank Group) Deploying health workers from across Africa to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia Incentivising local health workers in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia Training ...

Abba Abashi a Liberian-Nigerian student in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been speaking with the BBC about his efforts to maintain contact with family members in Liberia

A selection of photographs from around the African continent this week: A stall holder selling second-hand shoes looks on as a train moves through a slum area of Kenya#039;s capital, Nairobi, on Thursd...

Authorities say a top Sierra Leone doctor treating Ebola victims in the country has died from the disease. The death came amid the largest outbreak of the haemorrhagic disease in history, deaths blamed...

About 75 per cent of people contracting Ebola are women because they are often the primary care-givers, nurses and traders, health officials have said. The disease, which has claimed the lives of at le...

People infected in the West Africa Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed. However, scarce supplies raise questions about who gets priority in th...