West Africa in quarantine: Ebola, closed borders and travel bans

From Global development | The Guardian Fri Aug 22 2014, 18:15:04

Precautions to contain the Ebola outbreak are making west Africa increasingly isolated. Regional and international airlines have cancelled flights to the main affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and some borders have been closed. Nigeria is causing increasing concern, with two new cases of the outbreak confirmed on Friday

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