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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11149
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) ebola

EU commits further €140 million to tackle epidemic

Brussels, 05/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission announced €140 million of additional funding on Friday 5 September for the countries currently affected by the Ebola virus in West Africa, to help them deal with the rapidly growing crisis, the worst outbreak of this haemorrhagic fever, which threatens to destabilise the whole region.

The governments of the countries affected - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria - lack the capacity to deal with it. The announcement of...