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Africa: Ebola's Long Shadow Over the World Cup
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Africa: Ebola's Long Shadow Over the World Cup

[Independent (Kampala)] On May 30, as football fans around the world counted down to the start of the FIFA World Cup in North America and airlines prepared for the annual surge in summer travel, the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was sitting in Bunia, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, listening to community leaders describe a very different reality.

Source: AllAfrica