Republic of Congo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/republic-of-congo/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 13 May 2018 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 Republic of Congo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/republic-of-congo/ 32 32 WHO to use experimental vaccine to counter Ebola outbreak in DRC https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/who-to-use-experimental-vaccine-to-counter-ebola-outbreak-in-drc/ Sun, 13 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/who-to-use-experimental-vaccine-to-counter-ebola-outbreak-in-drc/ The World Health Organization says it will use an experimental Ebola vaccine in dealing with the outbreak of the killer haemorrhagic disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Another case of Ebola has been confirmed in Northwest DRC brining to 35 number of cases – 18 of which have been fatal. ends intro  World Health […]

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]]> The World Health Organization says it will use an experimental Ebola vaccine in dealing with the outbreak of the killer haemorrhagic disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Another case of Ebola has been confirmed in Northwest DRC brining to 35 number of cases – 18 of which have been fatal.

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World Health Organization boss Tedros Ghebreyesus says the vaccine comes from available stockpiles and will arrive in the DRC onWednesday.

Ghebreyesus ism on a two day visit to the DRC where Ebola has broken out near the border with the Republic of Congo.

The WHO chief has seen President Joseph Kabila and praised him for the speedy response to the outbreak and the cooperation with the UN children’s fund UNICEF and Medicines Sans Frontiers

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]]> Chinese foreign ministers maintains long tradition of making first visit of the year to Africa https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/chinese-foreign-ministers-maintains-long-tradition-making-first-visit-year-africa/ Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/chinese-foreign-ministers-maintains-long-tradition-making-first-visit-year-africa/ Maintaining a  diplomatic tradition lasting a quarter of a century, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has made Africa his first overseas destination in 2017. His six-day safari has included  Madagascar, Zambia, Tanzania, Republic of Congo and Nigeria. Minister Wang Yi has followed five predecessors who visited Africa during their first foreign trip each year. After […]

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]]> Maintaining a  diplomatic tradition lasting a quarter of a century, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has made Africa his first overseas destination in 2017.

His six-day safari has included  Madagascar, Zambia, Tanzania, Republic of Congo and Nigeria.

Minister Wang Yi has followed five predecessors who visited Africa during their first foreign trip each year.

After seeing Wang yesterday, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama ordered Taiwan to move its trade mission from the capital, Abuja, to the commercial hub, Lagos.

China pledged to invest $40 billion into infrastructure in Africa’s most populous country.

Wang says China will actively practice the values of friendship, justice and shared interests proposed by President Xi Jinping and aid African countries to seek independent and sustainable development

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