In This Issue:

- Leading the News

- United States – Africa Relations

- North Africa

- East Africa

- West Africa

- Sub-Saharan Africa

- General Africa News

- Excerpt from Leading the News:

West Africa Ebola Outbreak -

On September 4th, the United Nations (U.N.) World Health Organization (WHO) kicked off a two-day meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss potential Ebola therapies and vaccines in response to the worsening Ebola outbreak in West Africa. As part of the meeting, technical experts from groups developing Ebola interventions, policymakers from affected countries, ethicists, clinicians, researchers, regulators, and patient representatives were expected to review the state of development of Ebola interventions and to develop a plan for evaluating the use of potential interventions.