former Foreign Secretary Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/former-foreign-secretary/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 15 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 former Foreign Secretary Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/former-foreign-secretary/ 32 32 UK to step up pressure on international community to fight EBOLA outbreak in eastern DRC https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/uk-to-step-up-pressure-on-international-community-to-fight-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-drc/ Wed, 15 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/uk-to-step-up-pressure-on-international-community-to-fight-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-drc/ Britain’s going to putting pressure on international donors and the United Nations to up their game in fighting the EBOLA outbreak which is spiraling out of control in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Britain’s producing as new vaccine against the hemorrhagic disease that could be more effective if rebels stopped attacking medical facilities. Britain’s International […]

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]]> Britain’s going to putting pressure on international donors and the United Nations to up their game in fighting the EBOLA outbreak which is spiraling out of control in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Britain’s producing as new vaccine against the hemorrhagic disease that could be more effective if rebels stopped attacking medical facilities.

Britain’s International Development Secretary Rory Stewart’s call to the international community follows an expert meeting he convened drawing on experience from fighting the EBOLA outbreak in Sierra Leone three years ago.

Former foreign secretary David Milliband, who is now chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, says after visiting eastern DRC that the second worst outbreak of EBOLA is terrifyingly spiraling out of control having sickened more than 1700 people and killed more than 1000. 

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