FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has tripled the number of safe burials of Ebola victims in the past week and the challenge now is to expand that coordination across the country, U ...

1 of 6 — Villagers watch a Red Cross burial team carry out a neighbor who may have died of Ebola in the village of Pendembu, Sierra Leone. The goal is to prevent transmission of the virus from the ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- The radio announcement is chilling and blunt: "If I die, I want the deaths to stop with me." Dr. Desmond Williams continues: "I want to give my family the permission to request a ...

2. Nimley standing outside home of an elderly woman, Kortee Gray, who died of unknown cause after being in poor health for several years 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Commissioner Samuel T. Nimley, Ebola ...

Three Red Cross volunteers were injured Tuesday (2 October) when they were attacked while carrying out a safe and dignified burial in the city of Butembo in the north east of the Democratic Republic ...

It is the first visit by any UK Minister to the country since the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces began last August. The UK remains one of the largest donors to the outbreak and has ...

Villagers touching and washing infectious bodies of dead Ebola victims at secret burials are making it difficult to trace the virus and lower the number of new cases, U.N. officials said. The number ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese authorities announced a ban on Wednesday on harboring suspected Ebola patients and promised police protection for health workers at burials, in a bid to fight back ...