(AFP) – The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed more than 2,000 lives out of a total of 3,000 recorded cases since August last year, health officials said Friday. “In total, there have been 2,006 deaths (1,901 confirmed and 105 probable),” officials said in a bulletin dated Thursday.
“Since the start of the epidemic, the number of cases is 3,004, including 2,899 confirmed and 105 probable,” it added. The outbreak of the haemorrhagic virus began in North Kivu province in eastern DR Congo on August 1, 2018 and spread to Ituri province. Officials also reported that some 902 people were cured of the disease. Ebola is named after a river in northern DR Congo, formerly named Zaire, where the virus was first identified in 1976.
The latest outbreak is the second-deadliest on record after more than 11,000 people were killed in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia between 2014 and 2016. The WHO has declared the epidemic a “public health emergency of international concern” and so far nearly 200,000 people have been vaccinated.
Over 17,000 suspects sacked from Turkish army since coup attempt ANKARA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — More than 17,000 suspects with links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETO) have been dismissed from Turkish military since the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, state-run Anadolu Agency reported Friday. A total of 17,498 people have been purged from the Turkish army so far, and the expulsions will continue until “not a single traitor wears a Turkish military uniform,” Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying. Referring to Turkey’s ongoing military operations in northern Iraq, the minister said 676 terrorists have been “neutralized” since the beginning of this year.
Turkish government blames the FETO’s U.S.-based leader Fethullah Gulen for orchestrating the 2016 failed coup attempt, which left 249 people dead and some 2,200 others injured. The Turkish government has launched a massive crac.
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