Guinea

Community "social mobilizers" played a critical role in halting Nigeria's Ebola outbreak (Photo: CDC Global)

11 October 2016

#IDDR2016: How Nigeria beat Ebola

Nigeria has been Ebola-free since it narrowly avoided being sucked into the escalation of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever outbreak which devastated its neighbours, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone resulting in the loss of over 11,000 lives.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

A Liberian Red Cross burial team removes a body of a suspected Ebola fatality from a community in the Bushrod Island area of Monrovia (Photo: Victor Lacken/IFRC)

Updates

8 August 2016

Ebola countries implement Sendai Framework

UNISDR is working with UNDP and WHO on a project to accelerate implementation of the Sendai Framework in Ebola affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

Documents and publications

Reports

15 April 2011

Inventory of national coordination mechanisms, legal frameworks and national plans for disaster risk reduction in Africa

This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the

Documents and publications

5 February 2009

Disaster reduction in Africa: ISDR informs, issue 7, 2006

This issue includes:
- From the Editor: an abortive debate
- Partners in Action
- UN/ISDR Africa in Action
- Disaster Reduction in Africa
- Views & Reviews
- ISDR National Platforms in Action