{"id":182071,"date":"2016-01-15T19:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=182071"},"modified":"2016-01-15T19:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:57:17","slug":"ban-ki-moon-lauds-mahama-for-role-in-ebola-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=182071","title":{"rendered":"Ban Ki Moon lauds Mahama for role in Ebola fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"99jq3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"99jq3-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has commended President John Dramani Mahama and the people of Ghana for the role they played in ending the Ebola virus disease in West Africa. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"c4ooi-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c4ooi-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"afmdk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"afmdk-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">He made the commendation via a phone call to President Mahama on Thursday. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"afmdk-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"afmdk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"afmdk-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">This follows the declaration by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that West Africa is Ebola free. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59380 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ebola.jpg\" alt=\"Ebola\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ebola.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ebola-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ban Ki Moon praised President Mahama and the Ghanaian people for accepting to host the UNMEER mission and allowing Accra to be used as a staging post in the fight against Ebola. \u200e<\/p>\n<p>He said this gesture of selflessness was critical in facilitating the the international response against Ebola and contributing to the end of Ebola in the 3 most affected countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana government during the outbreak of Ebola in the African sub-region donated some\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/17\/govt-donates-relief-items-to-ebola-hit-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\">food and relief items<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to countries worst affected by the deadly virus including \u00a0Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has commended President John Dramani Mahama and the people of Ghana for the role they played in ending the Ebola virus disease in West Africa. \u00a0 He made the commendation via a phone call to President Mahama on Thursday. This follows the declaration by the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}