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Ebola crisis: Guinea hunger strike at village occupation
BBC ^ | 11 November 2014 Last updated at 09:31 ET

Posted on 11/11/2014 7:12:59 AM PST by wtd

Ebola crisis: Guinea hunger strike at village occupation

A hunger strike has been launched in Guinea in protest against the military's presence in a village where an Ebola awareness team was killed in September.

About 20 leaders from the southern Wome village are camping outside parliament since launching the strike.

The "military occupation" of Wome had forced some 6,000 people to flee their homes, an opposition leader said.

The government and military have not commented on the allegations.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ebola; guinea; hungerstrike

1 posted on 11/11/2014 7:12:59 AM PST by wtd
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To: wtd

Some people are difficult to help.


2 posted on 11/11/2014 7:17:31 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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3 posted on 11/11/2014 7:47:05 AM PST by null and void (If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.)
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To: null and void

Doesn’t want help with Ebola? Surely you can’t be serious.


4 posted on 11/11/2014 8:24:01 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: wtd
murdering eight people raising awareness about Ebola

Can't fix stupid.

5 posted on 11/11/2014 8:42:51 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Pollster1

Did they have the chicken or the fish?


6 posted on 11/11/2014 8:44:18 AM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: dfwgator

I had the lasagne.


7 posted on 11/11/2014 8:47:32 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

Sometimes it feels with ebola like we have to nuke the area to sterilize it of the virus and eliminate the crazy disease carriers at the same time.


8 posted on 11/11/2014 12:47:05 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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