West Africa

People walk in an alley of Conakry's Madina on March 18th, 2018, after a fire devastated the market.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem
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A man casts his ballot for the general elections, on March 7th, 2018, at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Riot police get ready to disperse people demonstrating to denounce the results of the local elections, on February 6th, 2018, in Conakry, Guinea.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Motorists wait as cows cross a road in Abobo, a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on January 3rd, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

We long ago abandoned control over Zika-carrying mosquitoes. There's no excuse for being so short-sighted about public health initiatives.

• By Stephen S. Morse

While it's clear that many overestimated Ebola's impact, it's hard to draw a direct line from fearful predictions to economic loss.

• By M. Sophia Newman

Experts are debating whether an Ebola vaccine can eradicate the disease in 2015. They’re getting way ahead of themselves.

• By M. Sophia Newman