Liberia

MONROVIA, Liberia—A leaking fuel tanker exploded earlier this week as people gathered to collect the gasoline, leaving more than 40 dead, authorities in Liberia said Thursday. The blast on Tuesday ...

MONROVIA, Liberia—At least 29 people in Liberia, including 11 children and a pregnant woman, have died in a ...

MONROVIA, Liberia—A teenager in Liberia who has become a national hero after finding $50,000 and returning it to ...

MONROVIA—As many as 17 people were missing from a cargo ship that sank off the coast of Liberia ...

GENEVA—A Liberian rebel commander was sentenced in Switzerland to 20 years in jail on Friday for rape, killings, ...

A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday.

Ebola, the deadly virus that claimed over 11,300 lives in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia since 2014, has resurged.  ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—International donors have failed to deliver $1.9 billion in promised funds to help West African countries ...

If the mind and body are one thing, then health care for the mind and body should become ...

Ebola virus disease was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, and by 2013 ...

NEW YORK—A team of researchers think they have pinpointed how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa started — ...

MONROVIA, Liberia—Liberia's government announced Tuesday that it will allow families to bury Ebola victims in a special plot ...

It’s been ten months since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa hit the headlines. And in contrast to ...

CONAKRY, Guinea—The worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed more than 7,000 people, with many of the ...

Polls opened Saturday morning in Liberia for a twice-delayed Senate vote amid concern the process could facilitate the ...

Mali on Saturday confirmed a new case of Ebola and said two more suspected patients are being tested, ...

The killers launched from the plantation under a waning moon one night in October 1992. They surged past ...

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Sunday replaced her health minister as part of a broader Cabinet reshuffle ...

Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Saturday ...

OMAHA, Neb.—When Dr. Martin Salia arrives in Omaha from Sierra Leone, he'll be the 10th person with Ebola ...

Many beds are empty at newly opened Ebola treatment units in Liberia's urban centers because the outbreak is ...

A US official estimates there are 3,000 active cases of Ebola in West Africa, many in small clusters ...

The government of Liberia is working hard to fight the Ebola epidemic, but its efforts have fallen far ...

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said enough progress has been made in the fight against Ebola to lift ...

BAMAKO, Mali—More than 5,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak that is ravaging West Africa, the World ...

Ebola has a lot of company, researchers say. Since 1980, the world has seen an increasing number of ...

Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, can move about as she pleases after ...