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According to the outgoing chief of the United Nations' anti-Ebola mission, the world can stamp out the Ebola outbreak in West Africa by the end of the year but months of tough work remain.
"We have not come anywhere close to ending the crisis. We've done a lot in 90 days in a very successful response but we have a long and difficult way to go," Anthony Banbury told reporters in Accra, where the U.N. mission is based," he said.
"It's going to go on for not just weeks but some months more. But I believe we will do it in 2015 and we're going to do it by working very closely not just with governments of the countries but the communities," he said.
Banbury will be replaced by veteran humanitarian official Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania on Saturday.
The outbreak, first identified in Guinea's remote southeast in early 2014, has struck six West African nations, with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia bearing the brunt of the 20,000 infections and nearly 8,000 dead.
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"We have not come anywhere close to ending the crisis. We've done a lot in 90 days in a very successful response but we have a long and difficult way to go," Anthony Banbury told reporters in Accra, where the U.N. mission is based," he said.
"It's going to go on for not just weeks but some months more. But I believe we will do it in 2015 and we're going to do it by working very closely not just with governments of the countries but the communities," he said.
Banbury will be replaced by veteran humanitarian official Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania on Saturday.
The outbreak, first identified in Guinea's remote southeast in early 2014, has struck six West African nations, with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia bearing the brunt of the 20,000 infections and nearly 8,000 dead.
#Ebola #UN #UNMEER