(JollofNews) – The Disease Control and Elimination Theme Unit of the Gambia’s Medical Research Council (MRC) have been awarded a major grant, building on its strong portfolio of malaria research.

(JollofNews) – The Gambia Government has secured ten million dalasis (equivalent to $238,095) funding from the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), meant to build six Ebola containment centres at six border points across the country, reports said on Wednesday.

(JollofNews) – Sierra Leone is to enforce a three-day lockdown of key parts of the country to try to contain the Ebola epidemic.