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The Gambia formally rejoins the Commonwealth five years after its former President Yahya Jammeh withdrew the West African country, calling it a "neocolonial institution".
2018-02-8

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

The World Health Organization reports that the death toll in the three worst affected countries in West Africa - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - has passed 5,000.
2014-11-13

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

A case of Ebola Virus is being treated in the American city of Dallas, Texas. [http:--www.theolympian.com-2014-09-30-3346615-ap-newsalert-officials-confirm.html (AP via "The Olympian")]date=August 2019
2014-09-30

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