Liberia

The World Health Organisation warn the Ebola virus is spreading fast in Liberia, as scientists move one step closer to finding a working vaccine after a drug protected monkeys for 10 months.

Medecins Sans Frontieres president has accused world leaders of failing to address the outbreak of the Ebola disease. He said urgent action was needed to contain the epidemic.

The first Briton to get Ebola is flown into London for treatment, as the death toll rises to 1,427 people. Channel 4 News speaks to the man who discovered Ebola and charts the spread of the disease.

Two US aid workers beat Ebola thanks to an experimental drug, giving renewed hope in the fight to contain the outbreak behind more than 1,400 deaths in Africa.

An outbreak of Ebola has killed more than 670 people across Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. So what do we need to know about this highly contagious virus?

As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.

An ongoing outbreak of ebola, one of the world’s deadliest diseases, has already cost 467 lives and is being described by some experts as “out of control”. But why is it so lethal?

Journalist Tim Lambon was being held in Liberia on espionage charges by Charles Taylor when Nelson Mandela intervened, asking President Taylor to release him. He recalls his phonecall from Mandela.

It is a familiar cry at any vote: it’s been rigged! As accusations of farce are thrown at Zimbabwe’s contest, Channel 4 News looks at a few of the more audacious election heists in recent history.

David Cameron calls for the next wave of international development targets to focus on extreme poverty.

As Unicef releases figures showing that more children now survive their fifth birthday than ever before, a charity praises the efforts of two post-conflict African nations on child mortality targets.

As Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben de Pear says his reign of terror in Liberia should not be forgotten.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been jailed at the UN-backed special court for Sierra Leone in the Hague for aiding and abetting war crimes during Sierra Leone’s civil war.

The former Liberian president is found guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone at a special court in The Hague.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.