We'll be running these regularly for the time being - the link to the most recent edition of the excellent daily Ebola Digest. Today's article image is a table of cases and deaths per country correct as of yesterday.

There's a huge amount of info in this excellent daily resource and we suggest you check out the source. In the meantime we've reproduced the country-specific section of their news digest below, in the hope it may be of particular interest and use to our readers.

That link again: https://eboladigest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ebola-digest-mon-dec-1-2014.html

REGIONAL SURVEILLANCE

Guinea

France's Hollande warns against isolating Ebola-hit Guinea

(Reuters) - President Francois Hollande, the first Western leader to visit Ebola-stricken West Africa, warned on Friday against isolating one of the countries hit by the worst epidemic of the disease on record.   

Russian epidemiologists to keep fighting Ebola in Guinea

Russian epidemiologists have been staying in Guinea since August 22

French President Francois Hollande Visiting Ebola-hit Guinea

French President Francois Hollande Visiting Ebola-hit Guinea French President Francois Hollande is visiting Guinea Friday to deliver a message of solidarity to the former French colony, badly hit by ebola. He will be the first Western head of state to visit the West African country since the outbreak of ebola in March.

Mamadou's return: Red Cross volunteer beats Ebola

IFRC In a remote village in southeast Guinea, a mother and her children are reunited with the husband and father they once feared they had lost to the Ebola virus disease. Around them, hundreds of villagers clap, sing and dance to celebrate Mamadou Noumou Diallo?s safe return to Kérouané. The 42 year old popular coffee bar owner is thinner than when they last saw him a month ago. He is also dressed in clothes they have never seen before, and his pockets are empty of his identification card, motorcycle licence, and Red Cross volunteer card, contaminated items disposed of at the Ebola treatment centre in Guéckédou. But his slow blinks and wide smile say it all: Mamadou is a man reborn.    

Coordination on Ebola lagging in Guinea

Eight months into West Africa's Ebola outbreak, aid efforts in Guinea still suffer from poor coordination, hampering deployments of international support to help quell a virus that has killed more than 1,200 people in the former French ;...

Liberia   

New Challenges Emerge as Liberia Makes Gains Against Ebola

WSJ--New cases in Liberia's capital have dropped to less than a third of their September peak, but eradicating Ebola is proving more difficult, raising the prospect of the disease becoming a permanent fixture here.

Four more health workers contract Ebola

Star Africa--The head of the Incident Management System (IMS) of Liberia's Ministry of Health, Tolbert Nyenswah has confirmed that four more health workers in Montserrado County have contracted Ebola.Speaking to journalists in Monrovia on Monday, Nyenswah said the latest infections were reported at private clinics and homes where there are no sufficient health precautionary regimes against [...]       

Liberian Supreme Court Puts Hold on Special Senate Election

voanews--Liberia's Supreme Court has put on hold the country?s special senatorial election scheduled to be held December 16.   The Justice in Chambers, Philip Z. Banks, told the National Elections Commission (NEC) to inform all political parties to halt all activities associated with the election.   The action follows a petition by a coalition of former government officials and representatives of some political parties to stay the election on the grounds that holding the poll risks spreading the deadly Ebola virus.   Banks is expected to hold a hearing Tuesday to determine if the case should be heard by the entire court or dismissed.  Alaric Tokpa, national chairman of the National Democratic Coalition and one of the plaintiffs, said the NEC was wrong to announce the holding of the election when the country has not been declared Ebola-free.    

In Liberia, Ebola Shifts From Cities To Villages

NPR--Liberia has been a death zone for those exposed to the Ebola virus. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with correspondent Kelly McEvers about what she saw on the ground, and what she will find hard to forget.

Ebola Outbreak - Catholic Hospital Reopens

all africa--St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital in Monrovia had survived some of the worst periods in Liberia's history, providing essential health services through times of war and chaos?and now reconstruction?in a city where health needs have long outstripped treatment capacity

UNDP Donates to Ebola Command Center

all africa--UNDP Donates to Ebola Command Center The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has donated several items valued more than US$20,000.00 to the Ebola Emergency Command Center in Monrovia. UNDP Country Director, Dr. Kamil Kamaluddeen said the donation was intended to ;....

Ebola Outbreak Situation Report No.11, 17 - 23 November 2014

The Minister of Finance has announced on 24 November a 'recovery' package to tackle the wider impact of Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia. 60m USD are to be allocated for the restoration of essential health services, Education 30m USD, Food Security 35m USD and conditional safety nets 25m USD. New partial data shows that over 252 children suffering from severe malnutrition were admitted in the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) outpatient treatment sites across nine counties (Bomi, Gbarpolu, Grand Bassa, Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru, Lofa, Margibi, Montserrado, and Rivercess).    

Island Clinic Etu Releases 22 Ebola Survivors

All Africa--Island Clinic Etu Releases 22 Ebola Survivors The Management of the Island Clinic Ebola Treatment Unit has discharged 28 patients, including 22 Ebola survivors. The head of the Clinical Team at the ETU, David Kaggawa, said 22 of the number were tested positive with the virus, while the other six ;...

Lofa Traditional Chiefs Launch Ebola Awareness Campaign

all africa--Lofa Traditional Chiefs Launch Ebola Awareness Campaign Local chiefs in Voinjama District have launched a massive Ebola awareness and sensitization campaign in the district. The exercise comes barely a week after the holding of a two-day Ebola awareness and sensitization workshop for chiefs and ;...

Mali

Ebola virus disease preparedness DREF: Preliminary Final Report Operation n° MDRML010

A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster In February 2014, there was an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, which spread to Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone, and most recently Mali, causing untold hardship and hundreds of deaths in these countries. As of 10 November 2014, a total of 14,490 cases, and 5,546 deaths had been recorded, which were attributed to the EVD. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an outbreak of the EVD was also reported, but is considered of a different origin than that which has affected West Africa. Mali, with a population of 14.8m (UNDP 2012) shares a border with Guinea, which has been especially affected by the EVD, and therefore the risks presented by the epidemic to the country are high. Summary of response Overview of Host National Society On 19 April 2014, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) release...

Sierra Leone   

Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone

NY Times--Military choppers thunder over the slums. Nearly a thousand British soldiers are on the scene, ferrying supplies and hammering together new Ebola clinics. Crates of food and medicine are flowing into the port, and planeloads of experts seem to arrive every day — Ugandan doctors, Chinese epidemiologists, Australian logisticians, even an ambulance specialist from London.

UK government must do more to help fight the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

Guardian--We are a network of UK-based organisations and individuals working to improve health in Sierra Leone. The Ebola outbreak is the greatest humanitarian threat the country has faced since its devastating civil war and we welcome the highly committed response to the crisis from both the secretary of state for international development, Justine Greening, and from the UK government as a whole.

Sierra Leone foreign Ebola relief operation criticised

Almost four weeks after Kerry Town opened, there is growing concern that the facility is seriously behind schedule

On a sweltering afternoon, an ambulance crawled slowly along the fresh gravel path behind Kerry Town - the centrepiece of Britain's contribution to the fight against Ebola here in Sierra Leone. The vehicle parked at the back gate and a team of white-suited medics carried out the first of four confirmed Ebola patients onboard. One - a 40-year-old man - would die minutes later. "You never know what you'll find when you open those doors," said Irish doctor Carrie Garavan, adjusting the protective headgear on a Sierra Leonean medic.

November worst month for S/Leone

star africa--November has proved to be the worst month in Sierra Leone`s fight against the deadly Ebola epidemic, officials said Monday.Chief Medical Officer, Dr Brima Kargbo, said one third of all infections recorded during the over six months of the epidemic were recorded in November alone. During that month 2, 063 new confirmed cases were registered [...]   

VIDEO: Is Sierra Leone losing against Ebola?

bbc--A year ago Ebola claimed its first victims in West Africa. Since then around 6,928 people have died and thousands more have been infected.

More Caritas relief supplies arrive in Ebola-hit countries

Caritas member Cordaid in the Netherlands is sending thousands of kilos of medical supplies and equipment to Ebola-hit West Africa. Last week, a Dutch naval ship arrived in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, bearing items to help hospital and clinic staff combat the deadly virus. The Cordaid materials include disposable overalls, gloves, masks, goggles, soap, water purification tablets, and ?no-touch? forehead thermometers so health care staff can take people?s temperatures without contracting the disease. The items are being distributed at hospitals and clinics. ?The materials will protect clinic personnel and to help them to be more safe when treating their patients,? says Paul Borsboom of Cordaid. ?Among the recipients will be Catholic hospitals and diocesan clinics.   

Sierra Leone: Ebola Outbreak Updates - November 30, 2014

Government of Sierra Leone Country: Sierra Leone NEW CASES New Confirmed cases = 75 as follows: Kailahun = 0, Kenema = 0, Kono = 0 Bombali =12, Kambia = 2, Koinadugu = 0, Port Loko = 0, Tonkolili = 10 Bo = 0, Bonthe = 0, Moyamba = 0, Pujehun = 0 Western Area Urban = 39, Western Area Rural = 12 CUMULATIVE CASES Cumulative confirmed cases = 5,906 as follows: Kailahun = 562, Kenema = 494, Kono =88 Bombali = 819, Kambia = 75, Koinadugu = 84, Port Loko = 860, Tonkolili = 373 Bo = 256, Bonthe = 3, Moyamba = 158, Pujehun = 31 Western Area Urban = 1,271, Western Area Rural = 832 CUMULATIVE DEATHS Total cumulative confirmed death is 1,522 Probable cases = 79 Probable deaths = 208 Suspected cases = 1,241 Suspected deaths = 158   

Sierra Leone: Ebola Virus Disease - Situation Report (Sit-Rep) ? 30 November, 2014

Government of Sierra Leone Country: Sierra Leone

British-run clinic in Sierra Leone 'half empty'

bbc--British-run clinic in Sierra Leone 'half empty' A month after it opened, a British-run Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone remains less than a quarter full. Save the Children, which runs it, insists the beds will be filled but says it has to ensure safety standards are maintained.

S/ Leone: Calls for Ebola lock down

star africa--As the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone focuses more on community approach, some districts have been advocating drastic measures, including closure of borders and restriction of movement The latest call was made by descendants of the districts of Tonkolili. They are calling for a two weeks lockdown of the northern district. Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic [...   

S/Leone: Freetown city council launches Ebola response Desk

star africa--Sierra Leone's Freetown City Council has unveiled a scheme geared towards containment of the Ebola epidemic after failing to implement its 'no-market-days' policy.Mayor Bode Gibsom on Friday launched the Ebola Response Desk at the Council. The council said it is in response to complaints by residents of the city regarding their needs for food and [...]   

State House frustrating efforts of the Mayor of Freetown to curb Ebola

sierra leone telegraph--On Wednesday 26 November, a family of eight living in one house was wiped out by the Ebola virus in Tengbeh Town – one of the most densely populated western districts of the capital    

Door to door Ebola campaign expands to new epicenters, reaching 100,000 Households.

(APO) Without community ownership, it will be difficult to fight Ebola, even impossible to make any meaningful headway? Director of Disaster Management Department. Disaster Management Department (Office of National Security) with support from UNDP is expanding its door to door campaign to the new Ebola epicenters [...]   

17 Australian health workers deployed to Sierra Leone

the guardian--Medical team to work for private company in British-built facility and will be subject to 21 days in quarantine upon their return A group of 17 Australian healthcare workers have been deployed to Sierra Leone to help set up a treatment centre for Ebola patients.The medical team has already undertaken training in Canberra and will be given further training upon arrival in Sierra Leone?s capital, Freetown.  

Hunger widespread as Sierra Leone set to miss Ebola targets

Sierra Leoneans are going hungry as the Ebola outbreak devastates farming, the United Nations said ;...   

UNICEF Sierra Leone Humanitarian Situation Report - Reporting Period: 13 - 19 November 2014

As of 19 November 2014, according to the Government of Sierra Leone, the cumulative number of laboratory confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases is 5,152. The number of confirmed deaths is 1,240 and 956 have been discharged from treatment (survivors). The government estimates that around 22 percent of cases are children and youth (0-17 years). To date, the UNICEF-led Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) network has identified 4,374 children as being affected by the Ebola crisis (2,184 girls and 2,190 boys), including 1,500 children who have lost one or both parents to EVD. This is an increase of 891 affected children from the previous reporting period.** The first ten UNICEF supported community care centres (CCCs) in Bombali started admitting its first patients this week.    

Sierra Leone goes hungry as Ebola hits farming; UN targets prove elusive

Sierra Leoneans are going hungry as the Ebola outbreak devastates farming, the United Nations said Thursday, admitting it was missing its much-touted targets for beating the deadly epidemic. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization ;...