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WORLD NEWS A11
                                                                                                                    Tuesday 24 November 2015

Liberia seeks US help to determine cause of new Ebola cases 

J. LAYLEH                        officer and acting head                                                                            the entire outbreak, which
                                 of Liberia’s Ebola Case                                                                            was concentrated in Libe-
Associated  Press                Management System. The                                                                             ria, Sierra Leone and Guin-
                                 first of the latest patients                                                                       ea, according to WHO. The
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) —         is a boy from the capital,                                                                         first cases were confirmed
                                 Monrovia, who officials ini-                                                                       in March 2014.
Two experts from the U.S.        tially said was 10 but now                                                                         Liberia was first declared
                                 say is 15. The boy’s father                                                                        Ebola-free on May 9,
Centers for Disease Control      and brother also have                                                                              but new cases emerged
                                 tested positive for Ebola                                                                          in June resulting in two
and Prevention are set to        and have been taken to                                                                             deaths. WHO declared the
                                 the same treatment center                                                                          country Ebola-free again
travel to Liberia to try to de-  along with his mother and                                                                          on Sept. 3.
                                 two siblings.                                                                                      The new cases in Liberia
termine the cause of new         More than 150 people                                                                               were announced just days
                                 have been identified as                                                                            after Guinea, the country
Ebola cases confirmed            potentially at risk of con-                                                                        where the epidemic start-
                                 tracting the disease in                                                                            ed, said it had no more
last week, more than two         connection with the new                                                                            Ebola patients and was
                                 cluster of cases, includ-                                                                          beginning a 42-day count-
months after the country         ing about a dozen health-                                                                          down toward being de-
                                                                                                                                    clared free of Ebola trans-
had been declared free                                                                                                              mission. Guinea had been
                                                                                                                                    the last country with any
of Ebola transmission for                                                                                                           cases after Sierra Leone
                                                                                                                                    was declared Ebola-free
a second time, a Liberian                                                                                                           on Nov. 7.q

health official said Mon-                                        A unidentified family member, right, of a 10-year old boy that
                                                                 contracted Ebola, has her temperature measured by a health
day.                                                             worker before entering the Ebola clinic were the child is being
                                                                 treated on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. Health authorities
Liberia requested U.S. assis-                                    are reporting one confirmed Ebola case, a 10-year boy who
                                                                 is currently being attended to at the treatment center on the
tance after three new cas-                                       outskirts of Monrovia, the capital.	 (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

es were reported on Friday,

said Dr. Francis Kateh, the

country’s chief medical

Kenya president Kenyatta declares                                care workers “who are at       than 4,800 deaths during
 corruption national security threat                             high risk and under pre-       the worst Ebola outbreak
                                                                 cautionary observation,”       in history, according to the
TOM ODULA                        es nobody should hold           the health ministry said in a  World Health Organization.
Associated Press                 their breath (for change)       statement.                     More than 11,300 deaths
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ke-        lest they faint,” Githongo      Liberia has recorded more      have been recorded for
nya’s president on Mon-          said.
day declared corruption          Kenyatta said among the
a national security threat       measures to be taken
and he presented a raft of       against graft include the
measures to fight the graft      vetting of customs and
that is endemic in East Af-      revenue officers, whom
rica’s largest economy.          the government believes
“I believe that corruption       are denying the country
is a standing threat to our      revenue by taking bribes to
national security,” Presi-       overlook individuals’ and
dent Uhuru Kenyatta said         institutions’ tax obligations.
in televised remarks. “The       The country’s spy agency,
bribe accepted by an offi-       the National Intelligence
cial can lead to successful      Service, has also been or-
terrorist attacks that kill Ke-  dered to help track down
nyans. It can let a criminal     the corrupt, Kenyatta said.
off the hook for them to re-     Banks that break anti-
turn to crime and harming        money-laundering laws
Kenyans.”                        and regulations will, at a
The president’s announce-        minimum, lose their bank-
ment was received with           ing licenses, Kenyatta said,
skepticism by analysts.          and directors and senior
“This president has made         officials at those banks
the best speeches about          will also be held culpable
fighting corruption but his      for abetting money laun-
credibility is very low,” said   dering. Kenyatta’s nearly
John Githongo, a former          three-year-old regime has
Kenyan government ad-            come under heavy criti-
viser who exposed millions       cism for inaction against
of dollars in government         graft which American Am-
corruption in the previous       bassador to Kenya Robert
regime.                          Godec earlier this month
“Going by the past speech-       described as a crisis.q
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