FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Barack Obama, Femi Osofisan,Soldiers and Ebola

Sep 16, 8:11 PM EDT
Southeast Missourian

Obama's Ebola response: Is it enough and in time?
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press


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Stated aims of the mission:



"White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the 3,000 troops would not provide direct care to Ebola patients.

In addition to delivering the 17 treatment facilities, they will help train as many as 500 local health care workers a week. Among the other initiatives, the military will:



-Set up a headquarters in Monrovia, Liberia, led by Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, head of U.S. Army Africa.



-Build a regional transportation and staging base in Senegal where the U.S. will help coordinate the contributions of other allies and partners.



-Provide home health care kits to hundreds of thousands of households, designed to help healthy people caring for Ebola-stricken family members.

That includes 50,000 that the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver to Liberia this week.



-Carry out a home- and community-based campaign to train local populations on how to handle exposed patients.

In Monrovia, Boima Folley runs a sport materials shop and said he'd welcome the U.S. military response.

"We have been praying to get the disease wiped out of our country, so if the coming of U.S. troops will help us get that done,

we should be happy," he said. "The soldiers don't have to have medical backgrounds.""

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:01 PM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Barack Obama, Femi Osofisan,Soldiers and Ebola

, Soldiers by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth, London,England
U.S. President Barack Obama has just announced that 3000 U.S. troops would be sent to Liberia to curtail the Ebola Epidemic by setting up health centres, training health workers and helping with logistics
I wonder if Barack Obama has read Kolera Kolej by the Nigerian Writer , Professor Femi Osofisan.Strange nobody seems to be talking about Kolera Kolej.
In Kolera Kolej we read about a Cholera epidemic on the campus of an African University.
The combatants in government then in charge of this university reasoned that soldiers are not trained to combat epidemics and so Kolera College was granted the status of a Nation state.And there the politics of the African continent began to unfold.
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