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APA – Lagos (Nigeria) — Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai has warned that any persons, who seek to undermine the nation’s democracy by interfering in the electoral process “must be seen...
APA-Cotonou (Benin) By Ulvaeus Balogoun — The Prefect of the Department of Littoral in Benin, Modeste Toboula and the minister of Decentralization, Barnabe Dassigli have been sacked by President Patrice Talon.
APA-Dakar (Senegal) By Oumou Khary Fall — A total of 5002 foreign and national poll observers in 41 missions are accredited for the 24 February 2019 presidential election in Senegal, Bernard Casimir Demba Cisse, Director o...
05-Sep-2014 to 14:52
SADC health ministers hold emergency Ebola meeting in Zimbabwe
APA-Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) — Health ministers from southern African are meeting in the Zimbabwean resort town of Victoria Falls to strategise on a regional response to the Ebola outbreak that has ravaged parts of West Africa, APA learnt here Friday.
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05-Sep-2014 to 13:45
UNICEF takes over procurement of protective gears for S/Leone Ebola workers
APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) — The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, has assumed responsibility of procuring all Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for health workers in Sierra Leone.
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05-Sep-2014 to 11:01
S/Leonean activist decries lack of food for quarantined communities
APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) — A human rights activist in Sierra Leone Thursday expressed concern about failure of the government to provide people in quarantine with adequate food and other basic needs.
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05-Sep-2014 to 10:50
Sierra Leone to recruit more nurses to confront Ebola
APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) — The Sierra Leonean government plans to recruit 1000 nurses to help in the fight against the Ebola epidemic, a government spokesman said here Thursday.
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05-Sep-2014 to 10:43
S/Leonean leader urges youths to get involved in war against Ebola
APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) — Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma Thursday called on the country`s youth to get more involved in the fight against the Ebola epidemic currently ravaging the country.
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05-Sep-2014 to 10:31
Ebola-hit nations get $75m US boost
APA-Washington-(United States) — US has announced $75 million more in funding into the fight against the worst Ebola outbreak in history after the World Health Organization (WHO) said budget cuts were hampering its efforts against the disease, reports said on Friday.
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05-Sep-2014 to 10:19
Punishment awaits Sierra Leone doctor who jumped quarantine
APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) — The medical director in the Sierra Leonean district of Port Loko, Dr Adikali Alpha Kamara, Thursday called for the arrest of a medical doctor for abandoning a quarantine.
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