Guinea will re-open schools closed due to Ebola outbreak

USAID via Wikimedia Commons

Guinea has announced that it will re-open its schools that were closed because of the Ebola outbreak. The schools will reopen on Monday because the country's "situation has improved," health minister Remy Lamah told The Associated Press.

Liberia will also reopen its schools next month, but Sierra Leone's schools will remain closed.

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Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.