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Sweden reports the first case of the new mpox variant outside Africa in a patient in Stockholm.
2024-08-15

Poland's Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak announces the construction of a barrier along the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, as Poland believes that Russia will use the border to illegally transport African and Asian immigrants to Europe.
2022-11-2

The World Health Organisation confirms a second new case of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.
2016-01-21

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

The World Health Organisation declares Senegal to be free of the Ebola virus.
2014-10-17

The World Health Organisation estimates that the death toll from the outbreak has passed 4000 with all but nine deaths occurring in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
2014-10-10

Three people in Mali, which has had no cases, are injected with an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, the first such trial in Africa.
2014-10-10

The World Health Organisation says that the death toll from the Ebola virus is over 2,900.
2014-09-26

The World Health Organisation and the Government of Liberia introduce a controversial program to move infected people out of their homes and into "de facto" shelters.
2014-09-23

The first African edition of the association football tournament begins in South Africa.
2010-06-11