{"id":5210,"date":"2014-09-10T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2014-09-10T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:05:00","slug":"african-union-meets-in-ethiopia-for-ebola-crisis-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/african-union-meets-in-ethiopia-for-ebola-crisis-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union meets in Ethiopia for Ebola crisis talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African Union chiefs held an emergency meeting Monday to hammer out a continent-wide strategy to deal with the Ebola epidemic, which has killed over 2,000 people in west Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fighting Ebola must be done in a manner that doesn&#8217;t fuel isolation or lead to the stigmatisation of victims, communities and countries,&#8221; AU commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, speaking at the opening of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Dlamini-Zuma told the executive council of the 54-member body, meeting at the bloc&#8217;s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, of the urgent need to &#8220;craft a united, comprehensive and collective African response&#8221; to the outbreak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ethiopia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/health\/article\/2000134255\/african-union-meets-in-ethiopia-for-ebola-crisis-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Ethiopia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/\">Ethiopia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Union chiefs held an emergency meeting Monday to hammer out a continent-wide strategy to deal with the Ebola epidemic, which has killed over 2,000 people in west Africa. &#8220;Fighting Ebola must be done in a manner that doesn&#8217;t fuel isolation or lead to the stigmatisation of victims, communities and countries,&#8221; AU commission chief Nkosazana [&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":[1298],"tags":[296,258,256,580,714,4695,1111,1119,4716,1299,3998,257,3999,254],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-addis-ababa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-au","tag-east-africa","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-fighting-ebola","tag-news","tag-nkosazana-dlamini-zuma","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","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=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/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=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}