{"id":4128,"date":"2014-07-16T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2014-07-16T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:25:23","slug":"ivory-coast-blocks-refugees-amid-ebola-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/ivory-coast-blocks-refugees-amid-ebola-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast blocks refugees amid Ebola fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast has blocked 400 refugees who fled to Liberia from returning home because of fears they could spread the Ebola virus, a UN official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision violated domestic and international law, the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast said it could not allow the refugees in because of the Ebola &#8220;pandemic&#8221; in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The virus has now killed 603 people in the three states, with 68 deaths reported in the last week, WHO said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the worst outbreak the world has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola, which spreads through contact with an infected person&#8217;s bodily fluids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ivory Coast News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28313888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">Ivory Coast<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast has blocked 400 refugees who fled to Liberia from returning home because of fears they could spread the Ebola virus, a UN official has said. The decision violated domestic and international law, the official added. Ivory Coast said it could not allow the refugees in because of the Ebola &#8220;pandemic&#8221; in Liberia, Guinea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,1110,4713,1218,257,1219,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola-virus","tag-ivory-coast","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}