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Ivory Coast Records First Case Of Ebola In 25 Years
Health Minister, Pierre N’Gou Dimba, has announced the country first Ebola case in 25 years. Dimba publicly shared that officials confirmed the case after testing samples from an 18-year-old female who travelled from neighbouring Guinea. “This is an isolated and imported case,” he said, adding that the patient was currently being treated in intensive care…
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UN Officials Accused Of Sexual Assault In DRC
A total of 22 women in the town of Butembo (an epicentre of the tenth Ebola outbreak) in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accused UN male aid workers of offering them jobs in exchange for sex. According to a survey in an investigation by The New humanitarian (TNH) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, fourteen…
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Guinea On High Alert As Ebola Death Toll Rises In Days
With a death toll of over 11,000 in 2014, new reports have revealed a fresh outbreak of Ebola on Sunday in Guinea which has now claimed four lives. Guinea reported an outbreak of Ebola on February 14, 2021, the first return of the disease there since the 2013-2016 surge, with cases and deaths reported in the…