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A war of words broke out Monday between aid agency Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization over who was to blame for the slow response to the Ebola epidemic that broke out a year ago. Doctors Without Borders released a scathing report on the global response to the epidemic, which has killed more than 10,000 people and infected nearly 25,000 since it was identified in March 2014, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and S stanley cup ierra Leone. The aid agency -- known by its French initials MSF -- said months were wasted and lives were lost because the UN s World Health Organization, which is charged with leading on global health emergencies, and possesses the know-how to bring Ebola under control, failed to respond quickly or adequately. But the WHO hit back on Mond stanley cup ay, saying it was MSF that had not alerted them to the earliest cases. It would have been much easier to control this outbreak had we kn stanley cup own in January or December when the very first case occurred or the first cluster, said WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris on BBC Radio 4. That was investigated by a group that unfortunately did not involve WHO and you can ask my colleague at MSF a little more about that, she said. MSF s general director Christopher Stokes responded that those earliest cases happened in very remote areas, and that it took time to confirm they were Ebola. Once the confirmation was obtained in mid-March, that s when you have to kick in all your resources and you have to deploy mass Moxw Trump s immigration orders hit with new legal challenges as two cities sue US govt
Myanmar has asked Chinese citizens to leave a border area where fighting between government troops and rebel militias pushed tens of thousands of refugees into China last month, Chinese state media reported on Friday. HT Image Myanmar has ordered at least 10,000 Chinese citizens who are in the Kokang enclave but have no legal credentials to leave by Monday, the Global Times said, citing local sources. Rumours spread among Chinese in the border area that fighting could restart soon in areas hit by unrest, the report added. In August, Myanmar s army overran Kokang, a territory run for years by an ethnic Chinese militia that paid little heed to the central government. China s foreign ministry declined immediate comment on the latest reports, but on Thursday it had issued a statement warning its citizens about the dangers of Kokang. The Foreign Ministry and the Chinese embassy in Mya adidas og nmar remind Chinese citizens and companies who are already in Northern Myanmar to pay attention to security risks, said the statement, posted on the ministry s website mfa.gov.cn . The statement also suggested Chinese citizens planning to go to salomon Northern Myanmar should suspend their trips. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan asics and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crime, and national affairs. News / World News / Myanmar asks Chinese to leave border area: media |
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