UN scraps clinic contract as Ebola exposes Mali readiness gaps

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UN scraps clinic contract as Ebola exposes Mali readiness gaps

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/un-scraps-clinic-contract-ebola-exposes-mali-readiness-104159688.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zbEt1qIKGVOOZAYmRpX47g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2014-11-16T104159Z_1007970001_LYNXNPEAAF05B_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-UK-HEALTH-EBOLA-MALI.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York" align="left" title="The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York" border="0" /></a>By David Lewis DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nations mission in Mali has cancelled plans to renew a contract with a private clinic providing care to its peacekeepers after a case of Ebola was missed and spread from there. This second Ebola alarm in Mali, coming just as it seemed to have contained its first case last month, raised doubts about the country's ability to protect itself from the epidemic that is ravaging three other states in West Africa. More than 5,000 people have died, almost all in Liberia, Sierra Leone and in Guinea, which shares an 800 km (500 mile) border with Mali. The U.N. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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