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Girls in Voinjama, Liberia, look at a poster that displays information on Ebola.   Photo: UNICEF/Liberia/Jallanzo

Cover Story

Ebola: A wake-up call for leaders

Disease exposes the weaknesses of neglected healthcare systems

EBOLA

·         A volunteer disinfecting the hospital of Tahouay in Conakry, Guinea.  Photo: Afreecom/Idrissa Soumaré

Weak national healthcare systems and few medical staff struggle to cope

·         Women harvesting rice in Carysburg, Liberia.  Photo: Panos/Aubrey Wade

Food prices skyrocket as farmers abandon farms

·         Vendors struggle with plummeting sales and rising cost of transporting goods to the market in West Point in Monrovia, Liberia, after the Ebola outbreak and quarantine took effect in the country.  Photo: UNDP/ Morgana Wingard

Foreign workers return home, citing contagion fears

 

Also

·         Trainee midwives demonstrating the childbirth process using a birth simulator in Kampala, Uganda.  Photo: UNFPA/Evelyn Kiapi

Despite progress in some countries, many women and babies still die during childbirth in Africa

·         An artist's impression of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.   Photo: www.grandmillenniumdam.net

Innovative bankrolling gains popularity and raises high hopes among key countries

·         Workers lay rails at a train station outside Niamey, Niger.  Photo: Ado Youssouf

Rail to link Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and Togo

·         The Shining Century Textile company in Maseru, Lesotho.  Photo: World Bank/John Hogg

Has the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act run its course?

·         A woman drawing water from a man-made pond in drought-stricken Somali.  Photo: UNDP Somalia

New initiatives to address agriculture and renewable energy agreed upon

·         Young female student in Monrovia, Liberia.  Photo: UNMIL/Christopher Herwig

MDGs come to an end in 2015 as the new goals come into effect







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