- Title: HEALTH-EBOLA/ECOWAS African leader discuss Ebola crisis at ECOWAS summit
- Date: 6th November 2014
- Summary: ACCRA, GHANA (NOVEMBER 6, 2014) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) SECRETARY GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFRICA, DR. MOHAMMED IBN CHAMBAS, GREETING PEOPLE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICA STATES (ECOWAS) COMMISSION PRESIDENT, H.E KADRE DESIRE OUEDRAOGO, ARRIVING PEOPLE ENTERING AND COMING OUT OF AUDITORIUM VARIOUS OF PARTICIPANTS CONVERSING ECOWAS BANNER IN THE AUDITORIUM WITH OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES FLAGS READING "EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE ECOWAS AUTHORITY OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT" ECOWAS CHAIRMAN, JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, ARRIVING WITH OTHER AFRICAN PRESIDENTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, ECOWAS CHAIRMAN, SAYING: "Liberia alone has registered more than 2,000 newly orphaned children, this in a country that was already trying to find ways to cope with the children who had been orphaned during the 15-year civil war. Whereas some children orphaned by the war had been adopted or housed in orphanages, the fear and stigma of Ebola has made these new orphans, these new children of disease, unwanted in the homes of their extended relatives and unwanted in the existing orphanages." VARIOUS OF LASER THERMOMETER SCREENING AT SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS STANDING BEHIND ECOWAS BANNER TOGOLESE PRESIDENT, FAURE GNASSINGBE, ARRIVING ECOWAS HEADS OF STATE MOVING AT THE AUDITORIUM WITH THE ECOWAS BANNER HEAD OF UNMEER, ANTHONY BANBURY, WITH OTHERS LISTENING VARIOUS OF AMBASSADORS AT SUMMIT BURKINA FASO FLAG ON TABLE AFRICAN UNION FLAG ON TABLE VARIOUS OF ECOWAS BACK DROP
- Embargoed: 21st November 2014 12:00
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- Location: Ghana
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- Country: Ghana
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: The leaders of West African countries that make up the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) began arriving in the country for an extraordinary session on Thursday (November 6) where the Ebola crisis was expected to be high on the agenda.
The Ebola outbreak has resulted in nearly 5,000 deaths in West Africa and nine cases treated in the United States since August.
Opening remarks from the Ecowas chairman John Dramani Mahama highlighted the plight of orphaned children in Liberia.
"Liberia alone has registered more than 2,000 newly orphaned children, this in a country that was already trying to find ways to cope with the children who had been orphaned during the 15-year civil war. Whereas some children orphaned by the war had been adopted or housed in orphanages, the fear and stigma of Ebola has made these new orphans, these new children of disease, unwanted in the homes of their extended relatives and unwanted in the existing orphanages," he said.
Delegates at the summit arriving from West Africa were screened with a laser thermometer.
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