About this Project

The EVD Outbreak Portal website is a result of a coordinated effort of Independent Social Performance, Habitat Health Impact Consulting, and IBIS West Africa. It was constructed for the project by David Schwartz.

The EVD Outbreak Portal supports an active rapid research project called “Understanding the Socio-Economic and Health Consequences of the Ebola Outbreak on Mining Host Communities in Sierra Leone.”

The website aggregates news articles from local, national and international news sources (full list to be provided in the near future) filtered through a simple 3-tier keyword/phrase structure:

1st Tier

‘Country’ (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria, DRC) + ‘Ebola’

2nd Tier

Country and Health: ‘Ebola’ + [+Country] – extractives keywords
Country and Extractives: ‘Ebola’ + ‘Extractives’ [+Country]

3rd Tier

Country and Mining: ‘Ebola’ + ‘Mining’ [+Country]
Country and Oil and Gas: ‘Ebola’ + ‘Oil and Gas’ [+Country]

The website continuously crawls the web and updates itself constantly. While articles are presented in partial text with links to the original sources, the full text of the article is being privately archived in the website database for future reference and potentially for discourse analysis. This website does not generate profit, and is providing relevant media links for Ebola in West Africa. All article links direct to source website. All publishers retain original copyright.

Please take into account that this site has yet to be fully optimized and as a result there may be the occasional ‘false positive’ article. Should the database be used for future discourse analysis, please be aware that the articles will likely require a manual confirmation of the each article being appropriate for the data set.

If you are a post-graduate researcher and interested in conducting a discourse analysis using the articles collected by this site, please contact us to discuss.

If you have any questions or comments about this website, please contact Independent Social Performance at contact@independentsp.com

Sierra Leone to begin cholera vaccination drive in disaster-affected areas

5 September 2017 5:21 PM
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Source: Government of Sierra Leone, World Health Organization, UN Children’s Fund, GAVI Alliance Country: Sierra Leone Two rounds of vaccination will be delivered in 25 affected communities by the Government of Sierra Leone with support from Gavi Alliance, WHO, UNICEF, the UK Government and other health partners. More than 1 million doses of Gavi-funded cholera […]

Housing and environmental failures behind shocking scale of mudslide deaths in Sierra Leone

17 August 2017 2:59 PM
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Source: Amnesty International Country: Sierra Leone The terrible aftermath of the mudslides, which have left more than 3000 people homeless, grimly illustrates the human cost of the government’s failure to implement housing and land policies, said Amnesty. The terrible aftermath of the mudslides in Sierra Leone, which have left more than 3000 people homeless, grimly […]

WFP delivers food assistance to thousands hit by mudslides in Sierra Leone

16 August 2017 2:32 PM
ReliefWeb

Source: World Food Programme Country: Sierra Leone Hours after the mudslides around Freetown, WFP began distributing initial two-week rations of rice, pulses, vegetable oil and salt to some 7,500 people in the hardest-hit communities. FREETOWN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is distributing food assistance to 7,500 people affected by the massive mudslides […]

WHO establishes emergency hub in Nairobi serving eastern and southern Africa

24 July 2017 3:15 PM
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Source: World Health Organization Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, World In addition to ensuring effective and efficient response to outbreaks, the new initiative includes immediate evaluation of an emergency to capture areas of strength and improvement. July 14, 2017 – The creation of an emergency hub in Nairobi by World Health organization has […]

Children pay high price as famine looms across Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen

19 July 2017 5:46 AM
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Source: UN Children’s Fund Country: Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen As humanitarians reach at least 10 million people each month in the 4 countries, UNICEF calls for further international efforts to save nearly 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death. WASHINGTON D.C., 18 July 2017 – This is a summary of a prepared statement […]

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