An 80-Cent Plastic Pouch Is Saving Thousands of Women From Dying in Childbirth NYT - World By: Stephanie Nolen and Taiwo Aina 3 November 2026 at 16:35 The maternal drape, as it is called, is helping to solve one of the worldβs most intractable health problems. Β© Taiwo Aina for The New York TimesHusaina Balarabe with her newborn, Aabid, in the maternity ward at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, in September.
Nigeriaβs Ebola Patient Evacuated as Investigators Press for Answers NYT - World By: Saikou Jammeh 28 October 2026 at 18:16 More than a week after the first case was reported in Africaβs most populous nation, pressing questions about the infection remain unanswered. Β© Geneva University HospitalsA photograph released by the Geneva University Hospitals shows paramedics carrying from a helicopter a woman who had been diagnosed with Ebola following her flight from Nigeria, on Monday.