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Emirates stop flights to Guinea; airport, street cleaning, Sierra Leone medical chief comment
Emirates Airlines suspended flights to Conakry on Saturday following the Ebola outbreak in Guinea.
Ebola has claimed more than 700 lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone this year, killing up to 90 percent of sufferers.
Health...
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Liberia - US Marines Run Through Exercises
US Marines were on a high state of alert off the coast of Liberia on Friday (19/4), ready to act to protect the US embassy in Monrovia. But while they ran through various drills and carried out target practise, they don't expect to be...
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LIBERIA: MONROVIA: PEACEKEEPERS REGAIN CONTROL OF CITY
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Ordinary life is slowly returning to the war torn capital of Liberia as peacekeeping forces regain control of the city.
Residents of Monrovia are returning to the markets and trying to patch up their homes ruined in the...
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Govt announces preventive measures to stop Ebola virus spreading to the Ivory Coast
The government of Ivory Coast, on Monday, announced measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
The measures include a ban on the national carrier, Air Ivory Coast, from flying to neighbouring countries affected by Ebola...
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US assessment team visits airport, protest at US embassy
Roberts International Airport
1. Various of US military humanitarian assessment team at airport
2. Various of US soldiers shaking hands with Nigerian airforce pilots
3. Nigerian airforce aircraft on tarmac
4. Cutaway of control tower at...
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Inauguration of Africa's 1st woman President
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1. Wide of ceremony
2. President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo and US First Lady Laura Bush in audience, Liberian Vice President-elect, Joseph...
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Liberian President-elect arrives in Ivory Coast on first foreign trip
1. People holding up sign welcoming Liberian President-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, to Liberia and singing gospel songs
2. Ground staff at airport directing plane
3. Johnson-Sirleaf's plane taxiing on runway
4. Ivory Coast president...
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UN chief visits Ebola struck Liberia at start of West Africa visit
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Liberia on Friday as part of his visit to the three West African countries worst affected by Ebola.
Speaking to media at Roberts International Airport, Ban expressed his solidarity with the...
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WRAP Adds Greenstock with president Gbagbo
1. Wide of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States regional bloc) compound with UN cars
2. Security
3. Interior, Sir Jeremy Greenstock talking to people
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Jeremy Greenstock, British Ambassador to the...
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Ghana - Summit Cancelled
Confusion surrounded the summit meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Liberia on Wednesday (8/5)...and in fact later Wednesday the talks were called off. The reason given: not enough heads of state were...
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New case of Ebola confirmed at Guinea hospital; Liberian health workers divided over strike action
Health workers in Liberia demonstrated their division over planned strike action on Monday.
Many reported for duty, largely defying calls for a strike that could have further hampered the country's ability to respond to the worst Ebola...
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US assessment team visits refugee camp
1. Wide shot of VOA (Voice Of America) camp
2. Wide shot of convoy arriving, sign reading: "No arms allowed in this refugee camp"
3. Convoy passing
4. Militia man looking at convoy
5. Zoom in to US soldier
6. Wide shot, zoom in to about...
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First West African peacekeepers arrive
1. Nigerian troops disembarking from UN aircraft
2. Nigerian troops running over tarmac
3. Various of Nigerian soldiers in grass around airstrip
4. UN aircraft on tarmac
5. Soldiers talking on tarmac
6. Various of Nigerian soldiers...
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GNS: WRAP Fighting + Taylor announces departure
1. Government militia men crouched in group on New Bridge
2. Machine gun being fired from technical (jeep with gun mount)
3. Technicals driving off
4. Militia man picking up second rifle and firing first rifle
5. Wounded militia man...
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GUINEA: UNHCR COMMISSIONER LUBBERS VISIT
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The new U-N High Commissioner for refugees, Ruud Lubbers, arrived in Guinea on Saturday at the start of a nine-day West African tour.
On Sunday he visited two camps near the southwestern town of Kissidougou, where tens of...
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France and Belgium screening, co-discoverer of virus on crisis
French Health Minister Marisol Touraine visited the medical teams from Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday, a day before they are due to start checking the temperatures of passengers arriving on the daily flight from Guinea.
The controls...
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Aid ship arrives, bridges reopen, peacekeepers
1. Wideshot of World Food Programme first aid ship arriving since outbreak of war
2. Various of US soldiers on guard
3. Wideshot of ship
4. US soldiers
5. Wideshot of Liberians on watching as ship begins unloading
6. Wideshot of...
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LIBERIA: PRO GOVERNMENT GROUPS TOLD TO STOP US EMBASSY PROTEST
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Liberian lawmakers have ordered pro-government groups to abandon plans to protest in front of the U-S Embassy, where a former warlord has taken refuge since weekend gun battles.
Fifteen civic groups had planned to march to...
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WRAP Shelling of school, fighting in the streets, chaos
1. Woman shouting and crying outside Newport School
2. Body on ground
3. Woman looking from doorway
4. Blood on floor
5. Body of boy curled on floor
6. Woman crying as others look on
7. Wide shot of Newport school (after bodies have...
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US envoy to UN visits to highlight need for more international support
The US ambassador to the United Nations visited Guinea on Sunday as part of a tour of the three West African countries hit hardest by the Ebola outbreak.
Ambassador Samantha Power held talks in the Guinean capital Conakry with religious...
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Ministers attend ceremony to mark hand over of aid
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) on Wednesday donated more aid to Guinea in its attempt to fight the Ebola outbreak.
The aid included 100 motorcycles and eight vehicles.
According to UNICEF Representative in Guinea Doctor Mohamed...
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Command centre wrestles with the logistics of battling Ebola as cases and bodies mount up
Poor infrastructure and torrential rains have slowed work for the international response to the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The Ebola outbreak is believed to have killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa and has taken the...
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State Department briefing, comments on Taylor, Hezbollah
1. US State Department spokesman Phillip Reeker walking into briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phillip Reeker, US State Department spokesman:
"It's certainly something that we called for, that we wanted to see. It was an important part of...
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Monrovia - Crippled Orphans Celebrate Christmas
Spanish Catholic nuns brought Christmas early to the victims of
Liberia's civil war. The Don Benedicte Menni Catholic Church
Rehabilitation Centre in Monrovia's Paynesville district has been
evacuated and destroyed twice since the...