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The Assimi Goïta-led military junta prohibits the operation of France-supported NGOs in Mali to reciprocate the French government's suspension of development aid for the West African country due to its involvement with Russia's Wagner Group in the war.
2022-11-21

The World Health Organisation declares an end to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa with Liberia the last country to be declared free of the virus.
2016-01-14

Millions of Guineans vote peacefully in the West African country's second free election since gaining independence from France nearly 60 years ago. Ballot counting started; the provisional outcome is not expected until the end of this week, an official said. Incumbent President Alpha Conde is expected to win reelection.
2015-10-11

China sends an additional 232 People's Liberation Army medical workers to West Africa to combat the outbreak (in addition to the 78 that had previously been stationed).
2015-01-13

Mali confirms that it has a new case of Ebola virus, this time in the capital Bamako.
2014-11-11

A Spanish nurse becomes the first person to be infected with the Ebola virus outside West Africa.
2014-10-6

The United States will send thousands of troops to West Africa to build Ebola virus clinics and train health workers.
2014-09-16

Cuba announces plans to send 165 medical staff to West Africa to help combat the Ebola virus outbreak that has claimed more than 2,400 lives.
2014-09-12

Liberia closes schools and quarantines communities in order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus that has claimed 672 lives in West Africa.
2014-07-30

The World Health Organisation estimates that an outbreak of the ebola virus has killed more than 200 people in West Africa.
2014-06-6