Ebola - Cameroon bans travellers from Nigeria, others

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August 17, 2014
Cameroon has shut its sea border against Nigeria possibly over the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus.
Our correspondent observed on Saturday at the Nigeria Inland Waterways Jetty in Calabar, Cross River State, that stranded passengers were unable to get vessel to ferry them to Cameroon.
Authorities of the NIWA jetty refused to comment on the development.
However, the passengers, who wore disappointing looks on their faces, were seen discussing in clusters.
Those who volunteered to speak, after much pressure, said they were instructed by security personnel at the Inland Waterways not to speak to the press about the development.
One of them, Mr. Anthony Obi, appealed to the Federal Government to intervene urgently, noting that the development would negatively affect Nigerian traders doing business in Cameroon.
Obi said, ?What I am suggesting is for the government of Nigeria to take serious measure about it. Otherwise, Nigerian traders doing business in that country will suffer.?....

Chukwu said, ?I don?t know what the Federal Government is doing about it. We are using this medium to call on the Nigeria government to intervene in this matter to alleviate the sufferings on the masses, especially the Igbo traders.
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Ebola - Cameroon bans travellers from Nigeria, others

16 August 2014

Cameroon: Ebola - Cameroon Bans Travellers From Nigeria, Others

By Adie Vanessa Offiong

Cameroon has placed a travel ban on Nigeria, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, all battling with an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Francophone country's transport minister Hon. Bello Bouba Maigari announced yesterday.

A circular sent by the minister to airline officials, sea, river and land serving, said the ban decision was taken in Yaound? after a meeting between the Cameroon government and concerned travel companies. The meeting was jointly chaired by Maigari and his health counterpart, Hon. Andr? Mama Fouda.
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Re: Ebola - Cameroon bans travellers from Nigeria, others

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Cameroon: Fear of Ebola virus causes a new clash at the airport in Douala
Douala - 17 AOUT 2014 - 12H
? Adeline Atangana | Cameroon-Info.Net

A flight from Lome Asky is about to be returned with all passengers, even those residing in Cameroon!

The atmosphere is electric for the morning of Sunday, August 17, 2014 at the Douala International Airport. A company flight Asky from Lome, Togo, was not allowed to disembark its passengers. And passengers to board the same flight to Ndjamena in Chad, nor can embark. Accordingly, the lobby and boarding are transformed into a rat race. The Asky agents, put together against the elements of the local police are attacked in turn by angry passengers. The plane landed around 6 am and until we were closing this brief 12h (11h GMT), the big bird, aircrew and passengers are still being held on the tarmac of the airport. And because the airport police prohibiting the landing of people on board, argues a decision of the Cameroonian government to ban flights from countries affected by the Ebola virus, "We are surprised because the statement does say the countries affected by the Ebola virus. But until proven otherwise, Togo is not a country affected by the virus. We note with bitterness that the police made ​​a misapplication of the decision of the Government of Cameroon. Police are asking us to return to Lome with all these people, "said on condition of anonymity, an employee of the company Asky. "There is free circulation in West Africa and it is easy for a Nigerian for example to go take that flight in Lome to Douala. So this is a precautionary measure that we prohibit the landing of any aircraft from the countries of West Africa, "says one police station to the airport.

According to our sources among the passengers on the plane are Cameroonians resident in Cameroon, a Central African minister and a CEO of a large company based in Douala.

At the moment, a crisis meeting is taking place between Cameroonian airport authorities and company officials of Asky. The intervention of the Governor of the Littoral Region has been requested. His opinion will be decisive in his quality as Chairman of the Regional Committee for the fight against epidemics and pandemics.

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