Gambia Censures Guinea For Silence Over Ebola Grant

Gambia Censures Guinea For Silence Over Ebola Grant

December four, 2014
The Gambia rebuked Guinea on Thursday over its "weird attitude" to diplomacy, accusing its near neighbour of refusing to say thanks for a $500,000 donation to its Ebola response.
The government said in an announcement the money, despatched in September, had been acknowledged with gratitude by Guinea's central financial institution while the federal government had remained silent.
"This bizarre attitude on the side of the federal government of Guinea is unlucky and regrettable," the statement said.
"Whereas the very best authorities of Sierra Leone, one other sister nation that received the identical timely gesture of African solidarity by President Yahya Jammeh, have acknowledged receipt of the funds with gratitude, the Guinean authorities is but to take action."

The Ebola outbreak ravaging Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has claimed 6,070 lives, in line with the latest WHO replace, with well being authorities in Conakry having registered more than 1,300 of them.
The Gambia, criticised for closing its borders to individuals coming from Ebola-hit nations on the top of the epidemic, hasn't registered any cases.
The tiny west African nation, which is flanked on both sides by Senegal, has a chequered current diplomatic report.
Jammeh, who has dominated the country since 1994 and is always seen in billowing white robes, brooks no criticism, ruling the smallest country on the African mainland with an iron fist and an aura of mysticism.
In 2007 he booted out a UN envoy for questioning his cure for AIDS.
Three years later, the European Union, the country's prime help donor, cancelled 22 million euros ($27 million) in finances help for Banjul due to considerations over human rights and governance issues.
In August 2012, Jammeh came under fire for sending nine prisoners to the firing squad. He finally backed down from a mass execution of the remainder of these on loss of life row.
In October last yr the Gambia withdrew from the Commonwealth and then accused the United States and former colonial energy Britain of leading a "shameless campaign of lying" about its human rights file.
The nation has hit the headlines this yr for blocking a UN investigation into torture and extrajudicial executions and severing dialogue with the EU over laws punishing "aggravated homosexuality" with life sentences.
May 13, 2014
The Gambia has lifted a ban on flights from Liberia and Sierra Leone imposed at the peak of the Ebola virus outbreak as Guinea mentioned the spread of the lethal virus had "slowed considerably".
December three, 2014
World Financial institution chief Jim Yong Kim announced a $160 million two-yr financial recovery plan on Wednesday to assist impoverished Sierra Leone battle the worst Ebola outbreak on document.
April 15, 2014
The Gambia has banned flights from Ebola-hit west African countries from touchdown in its territory, airport officers advised AFP on Tuesday.
November 22, 2014
Mali introduced Saturday a new case of Ebola in a man who is fighting for his life in an intensive care unit within the capital Bamako.
October 23, 2014
The Ebola virus can be contained in Sierra Leone by the tip of the 12 months, the president of the badly affected nation told Britain's ITV News on Thursday.
November 5, 2014
The World Health Group on Wednesday lowered its Ebola knowledge, displaying a smaller death toll in eight nations than earlier indicated as some circumstances recorded beforehand turned out to have arisen from different elements.
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