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WORLD NEWS Thursday 1 augusT 2019

2nd person dies from Ebola in Congo's city of Goma

By SALEH MWANAMILON- where along the roughly
GO 300-mile-long (490-kilome-
CARA ANNA ter) route from Komanda
Associated Press to Goma as he took motor
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) taxis over a number of days
— A second person died through the densely popu-
Wednesday of Ebola in lated region at the heart of
Congo's major crossroads the outbreak, WHO emer-
city of Goma, again raising gencies chief Dr. Michael
fears the virus could spread Ryan said.
beyond the country's bor- The man arrived in Goma
ders as the outbreak enters on July 13 and started
a second year. showing symptoms on July
The man may never have 22. He was isolated at an
known he had Ebola and Ebola treatment center
was contagious for days on Tuesday. He had spent
before the illness was con- five days being treated
firmed, officials said — at home and then went
alarming some in the city of to a health facility, where
more than 2 million people Ebola was suspected. "He
on the Rwandan border may not even have been
that has an international aware of the exposure that
airport. In this Sunday, July 14, 2019 photo, workers bury the remains of Mussa Kathembo, an Islamic he had," Ryan said, add-
The death "in such a dense scholar who had prayed over those who were sick in Beni, Congo. ing that the man's potential
population center under- Associated Press contacts were being iden-
scores the very real risk of tified and given an experi-
further disease transmis- tions agencies said in a them children. cases in this outbreak have mental but effective Ebola
sion, perhaps beyond the joint statement marking a The man in his 40s was a been recorded, World vaccine. Symptoms such
country's borders, and the year of the outbreak. More miner returning home from Health Organization offi- as fever can be confused
very urgent need" for more than 1,800 people have an area of northeastern Itu- cials told reporters. He was with malaria, which is en-
global support, United Na- died — nearly a third of ri province where no Ebola exposed to Ebola some- demic in the region.q

Official: Germany has moral not monetary war debt to Poland

Associated Press properly compensated for stressed that for Germany
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — wartime wrongs. the issue of reparations is
Germany feels moral re- Poland's right-wing govern- "closed from the legal point
sponsibility for the huge ment has said it is assessing of view."
damage done to occu- losses and plans to seek Berlin has pointed to post-
pied Poland during World reparations from Germany. war documents in which
War II but also no duty to Maas said Nazi crimes were the communist authorities
make financial reparations, a source of "shame" for governing Poland at the
the country's foreign minis- him personally and for all time relinquished claims to
ter said Wednesday in War- Germans. He said his pres- any reparations.
saw. ence at Thursday's events Poland argues the action
Foreign Minister Heiko to mark the Warsaw Rising was taken under pressure
Maas is on a two-day trip to anniversary was an expres- from Moscow.
Poland for diplomatic talks sion of that. Some 6 million Polish citi-
and to attend 75th anni- The invitation he received zens, half of them Jewish,
versary observances for the from Warsaw reflected were killed during World
ill-fated Warsaw Rising re- "deep trust" among friends, War II, which began with
volt, when Polish resistance said Maas, who will be the Nazi Germany's invasion of
fought the occupying Nazi highest-level German offi- Poland on Sept. 1, 1939.
German troops. cial in years to attend the The 63-day revolt against Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, greets German Foreign
After meeting with his Ger- annual events held in Po- the occupying Germans Minister Heiko Maas on a two-day visit to Poland for political
man counterpart, Polish land to observe the 1944 in 1944 left some 200,000 talks and for the Sept. 1 anniversary observances of World War
II Warsaw Rising of 1944, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, July
Foreign Minister Jacek Cza- revolt's anniversary since fighters and civilians dead 31, 2019.
putowicz said Poles have a communism ended. and Warsaw razed to the Associated Press
sense of not having been But the minister also ground.q