San Francisco-based Metabiota Inc. was tapped by the Sierra Leonean government and the World Health Organization to help monitor the spread of the virus and support the response after Ebola was discovered circulating in neighboring Guinea in March 2014.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says even the U.N.’s 193 member states cannot, by themselves, help resolve these widespread conflicts.
A street is littered with debris after a Saudi-led airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen's capital, Monday, April 20, 2015. Yemen is one of the world's hotspot that the U.N. says it is unable to address. UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is fighting a losing battle against a rash of
From Iraq to Syria to Gaza, domestic reporters, whose names may never be known to the world, face highest death rate, Committee to Protect Journalists report reveals.
The killing of international journalists reporting in war and conflict zones horrified the world and seized the media spotlight this year. A report released Tuesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists
In both sets of cases, there are realities of overstretched service providers seeking to respond, in real time, to rising death tolls and collapsing state-run services.
NEW YORK - The simultaneity presented by the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus on one hand and militant barbarism ostensibly in the name of Islam on the other present the international development community – particularly the United Nations and international NGOs – with challenges, as well as opportunities. At first sight, the
‘Western countries are creating mass panic which is unhelpful in containing a contagious disease like Ebola,’ Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said.
The US military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of the virus. The latest measures, along with
The treatment units are supposed to be completed by December, but the latest indications are that the US military involvement there will not end with this construction.
Thousands of additional US troops are heading to Liberia, according to commander Major General Gary Volesky, the lead of the ongoing war on Ebola in western Africa. Volesky
‘My basic human rights are being violated,’ says Kaci Hickox, who recently treated Ebola patients Sierra Leone.
After a weekend of criticism levied against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over policies of forced quarantines for health workers who have traveled back from West Africa where they were helping to fight the Ebola crisis, a nurse now being held in isolation has taken on a lawyer to make sure what has happened to her
