{"id":4966,"date":"2014-08-25T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:17:53","slug":"ebola-crisis-ivory-coast-closes-land-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/ebola-crisis-ivory-coast-closes-land-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola crisis: Ivory Coast closes land borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast has become the latest African country to close its land borders to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus on to its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Days after banning flights from three countries, it said land borders with Liberia and Guinea were being shut.<\/p>\n<p>Gabon, Senegal, Cameroon and South Africa have taken similar measures. The World Health Organization says such restrictions are counterproductive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ivory Coast News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28913253\" 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 become the latest African country to close its land borders to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus on to its territory. Days after banning flights from three countries, it said land borders with Liberia and Guinea were being shut. Gabon, Senegal, Cameroon and South Africa have taken similar measures. The [&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":[258,256,3296,1111,1110,4713,1218,257,254,1112,4692],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deadly-ebola-virus","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-ivory-coast","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virus","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/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=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}