Ivory Coast said on Friday that H5N1 bird flu had spread to a third location in the country, in the latest in a series of outbreaks in West Africa. Farm owner Moussa Dicko said he had lost 27,000 chickens in the outbreak, including about 7,000 slaughtered by veterinary agents. Jonas Oulai, vice-director of animal health at the Ministry of Animals and Fisheries, told journalists that there was cause for concern
By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) – Doctors in Ghana decided on Friday to strike for two more weeks, their union said, in a protest that is emptying hospitals and posing a stiff challenge to the government of President John Mahama. Doctors are refusing to see out-patients or admit new in-patients, despite pressure from government, religious and cultural leaders to go back to work. The strike extension came as a surprise
By Monica MacSwan LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Roadside bombs and continued insecurity in Mali are preventing relief groups from providing food and medicine to the most vulnerable communities, aid groups said on Friday. Conflict in Mali erupted in 2012, when a loose coalition of separatist rebels and al Qaeda-linked militants swept across the north of the country before a French-led military intervention in 2013 drove them from the main
By Umaru Fofana MASSESSEBEH, Sierra Leone (Reuters) – Sierra Leone lifted its last major Ebola quarantine on Friday as President Ernest Bai Koroma expressed confidence that the country would soon be free of the virus. The more than 500 residents of the northern village of Massessebeh gathered in the streets, singing and waving palm branches, after Koroma cut a piece of tape used as a cordon. “I am sure within
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ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s doctors unanimously agreed on Friday to extend their strike for two weeks while pressing government for a formal document to define their conditions of service, a senior leader for the Ghana Medical Association union told reporters. The strike, under which doctors refuse to see out-patients or admit new in-patients, is an early challenge to the government’s adherence to an International Monetary Fund programme designed to restore