Liberia

After 42 days without a new case, the west African state of Liberia, the country worst hit by the latest Ebola outbreak, is declared free of the disease by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

The first batch of GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental Ebola vaccine has been shipped to West Africa and is expected to arrive in Liberia later today, the British drugmaker says.

Sierra Leone’s north has been locked down over Christmas for at least three days in an attempt to contain the spread of the devastating Ebola virus.

Liberian Shoana Solomon, who launched a campaign to improve public awareness after facing Ebola stigma in the USA, tells Channel 4 News “there’s a human face here”.

More military, more medics and more money is needed to prevent the definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation, say the aid agency Oxfam.

There are so many of them they now have a label: Ebola orphans. Here is the story of eight brothers and sisters who lost both parents, a sibling, and were shunned by terrified family and friends.

The World Health Organisation says the number of Ebola cases should surpass 9,000 by the end of this week, as the British government continues to deport people to Ebola-affected countries.

“This is serious. This is killing us. It’s just too frustrating”. Moses Owen Browne from Plan Liberia tells Channel 4 News that the aid from abroad so far is so small, that it is almost “meaningless”.

Critics call the government’s response to Ebola “shambolic” as a national exercise to test Britain’s readiness for an outbreak takes place. But what danger does the killer virus pose to Britain?

While the world monitors the Ebola outbreak on websites and TV bulletins, locals at the epicentre of the crisis in Liberia receive their news differently: on a blackboard operating out of a shack.

With more than 3,400 people dead in west Africa and 7,500 infected in the latest Ebola outbreak, 300,000 people sign a petition demanding action… to save an infected dog.

Oscar Bloh, head of an Ebola taskforce in Liberia, updates Channel 4 News on the situation on the ground – as says the country’s citizens do not trust the government to handle the crisis.