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A10 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 2 February 2019
Russia angry, Europe worried after US announces treaty exit

By JIM HEINTZ its destruction today," Kon-
Associated Press stantin Kosachev, head of
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian the foreign affairs commit-
politicians accused the tee in the upper house of
United States on Friday of Russia's parliament, said.
undermining global secu- Another Russian senator,
rity by ending compliance Igor Morozov, alleged the
with a nuclear arms treaty, move "carries a threat to
while NATO said Russia was the entire system of inter-
at fault for the pact's de- national security, but first of
mise and European coun- all for Russia, because after
tries watched with dismay. leaving the INF the Ameri-
The U.S. announced it cans will deploy these mis-
would stop observing the siles in European countries,"
Intermediate-Range Nu- However, the end of the
clear Forces treaty as of treaty could also serve
Saturday and would with- Russia's strategic interests,
draw within six months from removing any obstacle to
the pact, a cornerstone of Moscow deploying inter-
international security since mediate-range missiles that
1987. could reach Europe and
The treaty signed by the China.
United States and the So- U.S. officials had expressed
viet Union bans the de- worry that China was gain-
velopment, deployment ing a significant military
and testing of land-based German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, right, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, and advantage in Asia by de-
Jeremy Hunt United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, stand
nuclear weapons with a during statements at a Gymnich meeting of EU foreign ministers in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, ploying large numbers of
range of 500 to 5,500 ki- Jan. 31, 2019. missiles with ranges beyond
lometers (310-3400 miles). Associated Press the treaty's limit. Leaving
Moscow and Washing- the treaty with Russia would
ton have for years traded ment, the United States al- the United States of unilat- the dispute. allow the United States to
claims of the other party leged that a new Russian erally seeking to neuter the "I 'congratulate' the whole counter the Chinese, but
being in violation. missile breached the trea- agreement and of resisting world; the United States has it's unclear how the Penta-
Before Friday's announce- ty. Russia in turn accused Russian attempts to resolve taken another step toward gon might try to do that.q

As Ebola outbreak marks 6 months, health centers a concern

By CARLEY PETESCH nity to present officials with
Associated Press a population that is wary
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — of outsiders after years of
The deadly Ebola outbreak rebel attacks in the region.
in eastern Congo marked "They don't trust authorities
six months on Friday with in Congo because they've
officials noting a worrying been exposed to insecurity
number of confirmed cases and conflict for more than
linked to health centers. 20 years," Fall said. "You
Such infections are seen as cannot control this type of
a major problem that high- outbreak without having
lights poor practices and the community involved for
the risk of spread among rapid detection." In Beni,
patients and workers. an early epicenter, it took
Combined with community months before some com-
resistance in an unstable, munities showed trust, he
densely populated region said.
that has never faced Ebola People often still choose
before, the task of contain- to go to traditional health
ing the outbreak remains centers instead of hospitals.
challenging . "Many people have gotten
In the current epicenter, Two Congolese government soldiers have their feet and motorcycle tires sprayed with bleach as infected in those facilities. If
the communities of Butem- part of an Ebola containment programme on the road between Beni and Oicha, in Congo Friday, you have malaria, you may
bo and Katwa, 86 percent Feb. 1, 2019. be in the same place as
of Ebola cases since Dec. 1 Associated Press someone with Ebola," Fall
"had visited or worked in a said. "They don't have doc-
health care facility before pitalized, and eight new in- outbreak in history, behind the WHO regional director tors there, and the people
or after their onset of ill- fected health workers were the West Africa outbreak for emergencies, told The working aren't qualified."
ness," the World Health Or- reported, WHO said. that killed more than 11,000 Associated Press. "We have Many of Ebola's initial
ganization said. With 759 Ebola cases, in- in 2014-2016. been able to control many symptoms, including fever
In the past three weeks in cluding 705 of them con- No end is in sight. hotspots, but it will take and muscle pain, are simi-
Katwa, 49 "health struc- firmed and 414 confirmed "This is a particularly com- some time to really end the lar to those of malaria and
tures" were identified where deaths, this has become plex area with such insecu- outbreak." other illnesses common in
confirmed cases were hos- the second-largest Ebola rity," Dr. Ibrahima Soce Fall, Katwa is the latest commu- the region.q