New Zealand dispatches nurses to Sierra Leone for Ebola

New Zealand’s Envoy (L) and Ambassador Kamara

As part of the international response effort to help combating the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), New Zealand’s Emissary to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Dr. James Kember informed His Excellency Osman Keh Kamara, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union that his country has sent two clinical nurses to Sierra Leone.

A 40ft Container of Ebola Emergency Medical Supplies and Relief Aids off to S/Leone

By Kabbs Kanu & Pasco Temple

A forty Feet (40’) sized High cube container full of Medical supplies to aid combat Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone has on Wednesday August 13^th 2014 departed the seashores of New Jersey on board the “Grande Marrocco” vessel for the Queen Elizabeth 11 Quay in Freetown, Sierra Leone at the expense of the Embassy of Sierra Leone in the USA.

Nigerian woman suspected of Ebola dies in UAE

Dubai, 18 August: Health officials in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi say that a Nigerian woman who arrived on a flight transiting the city and who may have been infected with the Ebola virus has died.

President Xi: China to continue help to fight Ebola

SL's HE President Ernest Bai Koroma & President Xi Jinping of PRC

(Xinhua) NANJING - President Xi Jinping on Saturday vowed that China will continue to help international control of the Ebola epidemic in a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Chinese Ambassador Zhao Yanbo Handed Over Emergency Humanitarian Anti-Ebola Medical Materials to Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma

2014/08/15 On August 12, Chinese Ambassador handed over a batch of emergency humanitarian anti-Ebola medical materials valued at RMB 10 million Yuan (equally 1.63 million USD) to Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma at the State House of Sierra Leone.

Red Cross meets with President Koroma

By State House Communications Unit

The Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross, Mr. Elhadj As Sy on 14th August, 2014 met with President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma at State House to have firsthand information about the health situation on the ground regarding the Ebola outbreak.

Joule Africa and Endeavour Energy Join Ebola Fight

By State House Communications Unit

Representatives of Joule Africa and Endeavour Energy led by the Country Director for Joule Africa, Mr. Patrick Olu Beckley has this morning 14th August donated a banker's cheque for the sum of $25,000 USD (Twenty Five Thousand United States Dollars) as their contribution to the National Emergency Health response against the Ebola outbreak.