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“Uganda has called on the African Union to consider deploying its standby peacekeeping and humanitarian force to help contain an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people in DR Congo.”

“…met Wednesday to coordinate a continent-wide response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people in DR Congo and spread to Kenya and Nigeria, as an assessment presented at the meeting showed only three of 31 countries evaluated were adequately…”

“The US raised its travel advisory for Kenya to Level 3 earlier this week over Ebola, as a rare strain of the virus with no approved vaccine or treatment spreads beyond the center of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

“The News Global aid groups, including the UN, are facing demands to inform the Congolese government of the whereabouts of more than $700 million that was donated to deal with the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,600 people in the country.”

“Kaseya, who said there was “no doubt” the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was made worse by the cuts, also urged governments to mobilize domestic resources through taxation.”

“And Google’s Planetary Prediction Engine, he said, was used to predict Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 83% accuracy.”

“…Centres for Disease Control Jean Kaseya said Tuesday that the continent should begin making vaccines locally, as the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak continues to have a huge impact on the economies of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and…”