African Nations Pledge 1,600 Volunteer Ebola Workers

23 October 2014

The African Union says member states have promised to send more than 1,600 volunteer health workers to Ebola-affected countries. The continent's slow response to help the stricken nations has come under criticism.

African Union (AU) member states will send more than 1,000 volunteer health workers to the countries worst-affected by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - where trained doctors and nurses are scarce.

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