Guinea: US envoy expected in Guinea over Ebola disease

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – President Barack Obama's envoy, Samanta Power, is expected Sunday in Conakry for a short visit that focuses on the means to establish a framework to strengthen the fight against the deadly Ebola disease that broke out in Guinea, diplomatic sources told PANA.

The US diplomatic mission in Guinea said that the envoy will come to express US support to Guinea following the epidemic that has killed 800 of the 1,600 reported cases in the country, particularly from Kairounaé, in High Guinea (East), where 100 new cases have been reported over the past few days.

The suspected cases and the patients, originally from the locality, are taken to the treatment centre of the locality of Macenta (South), about 900 km from Conakry, considered as the epicenter of the disease.

The US envoy will meet with President Alpha Condé, and will also hold talks with the religious leaders in Conakry.

Recently, the African Union chairwoman, Nkozana Dlamini-Zuma, the chairman of the African Development bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Carlos Lopes, met with President Condé on their Ebola fact-finding missions.
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