Monrovia

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  Stampede At Church Event In Liberia Capital Kills 29

  A stampede killed at least 29 people at a religious event in the suburbs of the Liberian capital Monrovia, police said on Thursday.

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  Ebola Survivor Likely Source of New Liberian Outbreak: WHO

  A resurgence of Ebola in Liberia is likely to have originated in a survivor still carrying the virus, scientists said Wednesday as the country announced a second death in the new outbreak.

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  Liberia Confirms New Ebola Case as Outbreak Spreads

  A Liberian woman has died of Ebola in a hospital in Monrovia shortly after being admitted, becoming the sixth confirmed case and second death since the virus resurfaced last month, a senior medical official said on Tuesday.

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  Liberia Announces 2 More Confirmed Ebola Cases

  Liberia said Wednesday a teenager who died of Ebola fever had spread the virus to at least two more people, confirming the first outbreak of the tropical disease for months.

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  Ebola Vaccines Trial Starts in Liberia

  A large-scale human trial of two potential Ebola vaccines got under way in Liberia's capital Monday, part of a global effort to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that has now claimed nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa.

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  Clinical Trial Starts at Ebola Center for Anti-Viral Drug

  Doctors Without Borders says a clinical drug trial is under way at its Ebola treatment center in Liberia's capital.

• Liberia to Provide 1,000 Ebola Beds in Overwhelmed Capital

  Liberia announced plans Sunday for a four-fold increase in beds for Ebola patients in its overwhelmed capital Monrovia, as US troops arrived to help tackle the deadly epidemic.

• Liberia's Ebola Disposal Teams Preserve Life After Death

  Heavily pregnant when she died, Fatimah Jakemah is lifted unceremoniously by experts in biohazard suits and zipped into a body bag, another practically anonymous victim of the world's worst ever Ebola outbreak.

• Senegal Closes Border As UN Warns on Ebola Flare-Up

  Senegal has become the latest country to seal its border with a west African neighbour to ward off the deadly Ebola virus, as the new UN pointman on the epidemic said preparations must be made for a possible flare-up of the disease.

• Liberia Police Fire on Protesters as West Africa's Ebola Toll Hits 1,350

  Police in the Liberian capital fired live rounds and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood, as the death toll from the epidemic in West Africa hit 1,350.

• Liberian Police Fire Tear Gas to Disperse Protest Over Ebola Quarantine

  Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd agitating to leave a neighbourhood placed under quarantine because of the Ebola virus, witnesses said.

• Struggling Liberia Creates 'Plague Villages' in Ebola Epicentre

  To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicentre of the virus, evoking the "plague villages" of medieval Europe that were shut off from the outside world.

• Liberia President Apologises for High Toll for Ebola Health Workers

  Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologised on Saturday for the high death toll among the country's healthcare workers who have fought an Ebola outbreak, which has killed nearly 1,000 people in three countries.

• Sierra Leone Army Blockades Ebola Areas, Liberia Declares Emergency

  The army blockaded on Thursday rural areas in Sierra Leone that have been hit by the deadly Ebola virus, a senior officer said, after neighbouring Liberia declared a state of emergency to tackle the worst outbreak of the disease on record.

• Sierra Leone Army Blockades Ebola Areas, Liberia Declares Emergency

  The army blockaded rural areas hit by the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone on Thursday, a senior officer said, after neighbouring Liberia declared a state of emergency to tackle the worst outbreak of the disease, which has killed 932 people.