Stories: Ebola
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Tourists Abandon Ghana Despite Its Successes Against Ebola
Each evening the fishermen set out in their hand-carved wooden boats. By nightfall, the horizon is dotted by a long row of small lights, their own constellation. Fish are caught, the haul is sold in markets and life continues. But one group is noticeably absent from Elmina and other towns along Ghana’s coast – tourists. ...
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Ebola a ‘Shared’ African Problem, Yet Nations Look to Their Own Needs
East African leaders today acknowledged that West Africa's Ebola outbreak is unprecedented in severity and scope, and too big for that region to handle by itself. Yet at a gathering in Kenya the main focus was on measures to keep the virus out of their nations. “This outbreak has transcended beyond the scope of any one country...