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Workers move a container of rice destined for Monrovia and Freetown, both suffering from Ebola virus epidemics, at the port of Cotonou, Benin, on October 13, 2014. (Reuters/Charles Placide)
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US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division train before their deployment to West Africa to help in the fight against Ebola at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on October 9, 2014. (Reuters/Harrison McClary)
WHO: Ebola death toll rises to more than 4,000
Monrovia, Liberia, AP—Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law would...Caption:
A community activist (L) helps Promise Cooper, 16, and her brother Emmanuel Junior, 11, make a disinfectant solution. The siblings were orphaned after their parents died of the Ebola virus. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
US military aircraft arrive in Liberia
Monrovia, AP—Presidents of West African countries ravaged by Ebola pleaded for aid at the World Bank on Thursday as the US military ramped up its efforts in Liberia, the hardest-hit country. “Our people are dying,” Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma...Caption:
Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, on September 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Hunger threat shadows Ebola in West Africa
Freetown and Dakar, Reuters—The threat of hunger is tracking Ebola across affected West African nations as the disease kills farmers and their families, drives workers from the fields and creates food shortages. In the worst-hit states of Liberia, Sierra Leone and...Caption:
A local market in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is deserted as the government enforces a three day lockdown on movement of all people in a attempt to fight the Ebola virus on September 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Duff)