Guinea: 26 suspects linked to anti-Ebola incidents in For?cariah arrested

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Ebola resistance would have caused deaths in For?cariah: "the agents were shooting ..." said one imam

Post by Guineematin 17 - January - 2015

"They returned at 4:30 and came to shoot. They broke several doors to get people out. They took fifteen (15) people. All the neighbors were alerted. But they were shooting everywhere. It's like a rebellion ... "said, among others, on the phone to Guineematin.com Elhadj Moussa Camara, one of the imams of Sinkin?, sub-prefecture of Kanyah.

Despite our repeated attempts, Guineematin.com could not speak with the prefect or with the head of the the police of For?cariah. Yet the phone of the prefect N'fansoumane Soumah and Colonel Gilbert Lamah rang ...

Two more poignant testimonies of residents reached by phone by Guineematin.com confirmed the words of the Imam on the seriousness of the current situation in Forecariah. "Come and help us," introduced in our conversation one of the residents, believing talking to one of the neighbors they called for help ... A reporter of Guineematin.com is already on his way to Sinkin?, sub-prefecture of Kanyah.

Mamadou Balde Alpha

http://guineematin.com/2015/01/17/l...a-forecariah-les-agents-tiraient-dit-un-imam/
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Guinea: 26 suspects linked to anti-Ebola incidents in For?cariah arrested

APA-Conakry (Guinea)

Guinean police arrested 26 people suspected of links to anti-Ebola in Sinkin? events in the city of Forecariah, from which originated the current Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana, security sources told APA on Sunday.

The respondents are accused of having attacked a prefectural team that had gone there to pick two suspected cases of Ebola to confine them to the transit center For?cariah city 100 km from Conakry,

The missionaries then met with resistance from villagers who looted their vehicle. They were saved by the intervention of the strength of forces.

Such facts are often noted in Forest Guinea, the epicenter of the epidemic.

Recently, three policemen and their driver were lynched to death, also in For?cariah by a crowd who suspected them of wanting to spread Ebola in their locality.

Faced with this situation, the Guinean President Alpha Conde has now authorized the use of "public force" to stop the recalcitrant.

Speaking in the same vein, the Prime Minister, Said Fofana, also announced coercive measures against refractory to combating anti-Ebola.

AB / of / APA 2015-01-18 3:14:28 p.m.

http://apanews.net/news/fr/article.php?id=814812

 

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Guinea: 26 arrested after two murders linked to rumors about Ebola

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Twenty-six people were arrested in south-western Guinea, plagued by Ebola, after the murders of two men falsely accused by villagers to spread the virus, said Sunday a security source told AFP.

The announcement comes a day after a statement by President Alpha Conde authorizing "the use of the police to arrest recalcitrant" in the fight against Ebola, which AFP has obtained registration Sunday.

"We have long communicated but there are people who do not want Ebola to end. We have allowed the administrative authorities to now use the gendarmerie and the police to ensure that anyone who refuses to be treated by doctors be arrested, "said Conde Saturday at Kindia (130 km north of Conakry ), at the opening of an anti-Ebola center.

Guinea, where started at the end of December 2013 the current outbreak, has recorded several hostile reactions to fight Ebola, which is also present in neighboring of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

http://www.lesoir.be/761139/article...rrestations-apres-deux-meurtres-lies-des-rume

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Resistance to Ebola in Sinkin?: population on the run, military presence, the realities in the field

Post by Guineematin 18 - January - 2015

Sinkin?, For?cariah 1 (From our special correspondent in the village of the Prime Minister): The Sinkin? district populations, prefecture Kanyah in Forecariah prefecture, located about 100 kilometers east of Conakry were awakened Saturday 17 January 2015 at 4 hours 30 minutes by shooting somations and tear gas from the police who came accompany by red Cross workers looking for people suspected of having Ebola virus.

Informed, Guineematin.com dispatched a reporter on the ground. At the scene, around 14 pm, our reporter only found some old people and children. All other residents had fled to seeking refuge to neighboring villages.

According to information gathered on site, there would have been around 25 people who died as a result of Ebola, including 17 in Beta, a nearby village and 8 in Sinkin?.

According to some people found in the village of Sinkin? (which now resembles a ghost town) last Thursday, a deceased woman was buried without the respect of the Ebola protocol. So, faced with resistance from villagers about the existence of the Ebola virus disease, it is the security forces composed of gendarmes and military who reportedly raided the village at 4 hours 30 minutes to shoot the tear gas and warning shots to look for any Ebola patients and contacts or suspicious subjects. This is what would have caused panic and frustration in the village.

To show their displeasure, people vandalized the hospital built by the Prime Minister Said Fofana because they say it is the hospital that is the cause of their misfortune.

Questioned by Guineematin.com, the imam of the village, Elhadj Moussa Camara said: "It is with a heart full of bitterness and despair that I speak today. We were woken in our homes early this morning around 4 hours 30 minutes by live ammunition and tear gas. They beat us and took our goods including phones. They also arrested 15 people ... ".

According to the imam, this crisis of confidence is part of the sanitizing of the premises by health workers: "They put the products in our wells to prevent us from having water to drink. Years ago years that this well was dug. Seven villages supply themselves with water in the well. But as soon as the doctors have poured their product in this well, all toads who were there died. This is sufficient proof that they came to kill us. Today, we no longer have water to drink, you know? The well is closed. I am surprised that it is the people of the village where was born Said Fofana and his brother Kassory Fofana who undergo this fate ", is astonished Elhadj Moussa Camara.

Furthermore, the only village shop was looted by. And the police are accused of being the authors. The shop owner himself and 14 other people were taken to the Ebola transit center in For?cariah, informed us his wife found on site.

Our efforts to exchange with the district chairman have been unsuccessful. Mr. Morlaye Yanssan?, president of Sinkin? District, refused any comment at Guineematin.com reporter, claiming to be bound by the secret ... An order that he received in Conakry authorities through the Prime Minister, Mohamed Said Fofana.

Reached by telephone, the Prefect of For?cariah N'Fansoumane Soumah confirmed the use of force to pick the sick villagers. "Despite the cruise speed taken by the state to thwart this epidemic, we are faced with a reluctance of people. They refuse to bring out the sick. And it is through information that we can gather the sick with force to lead them to the transit center, CTE For?cariah "said the prefect N'Fansoumane Soumah.

To recalled that many agents of the security forces present at the scene, refused any comment or even taking an image of them and the vandalized hospital ...

Ibrahima Sory Diallo, special envoy to Guineematin.com Sinkin? Almamya under prefecture Kanyah (For?cariah)

http://guineematin.com/2015/01/18/r...s-presence-militaire-les-realites-du-terrain/

 

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Mon, January 19 2015, 1:42 p.m.
Posted By Abdoulaye Bah

Clashes anti-Ebola at Kaback: three gunshot wounds, according to one resident

Clashes were reported Monday morning in Kaback, sub-prefecture of Forecariah. According to our sources, a total of three people were injured by bullets.

According to one resident contacted by Guineenews, everything would have started when health workers arrived recently in their sub-prefecture to put disinfectants in their wells. Immediately, the hosts have faced fierce resistance from residents who suspected them of spreading Ebola to their home.

Continuing his testimony, our source informs of the descent of military early Monday in Kaback. "This morning, soldiers, not gendarmes or police, but I say soldiers came. They injured three people by bullets."

Yet, says our source, no Ebola cases have been reported in the sub-prefecture.

According to other sources, the manifestations of Kaback caused damage. "The premises of the sub-prefecture were looted and officers of the Red Cross were beaten."

While waiting to learn more, local authorities or those of Conakry said nothing, at least for the moment.

These skirmishes take place two days after the mission to raise awareness against the r?ticense populations Forecariah facing Ebola made by the Ministers of Makanera Communication and Youth Naite.

http://guineenews.org/echauffourees-anti-ebola-a-kaback-trois-blesses-par-balles-selon-un-habitant/

 

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20 January 2015 Last updated at 12:48 ET

Ebola crisis: Guinean priests beaten up over health fears

Three priests from a Baptist church in Guinea have been beaten up and held hostage because local people mistook them for Ebola awareness campaigners.

The priests had gone to the village of Kabac in Forecariah intending to spray insecticide on wells and pit latrines, a BBC reporter says.

But they were set upon by villagers who suspected they may have been bringing the Ebola virus into the area, he adds.
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Earlier this month, residents in Forecariah attacked and killed two police officers they suspected of bringing Ebola to the area.

The priests were badly beaten and their vehicle was set on fire, reports the BBC's Alhassan Sillah from Guinea.
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After this, the angry villagers went to the town council building, which they vandalised, he says.

It too was set on fire, forcing local officials to flee, our reporter adds.

Local reports said one council worker was killed by the crowd but this could not be independently verified.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30900917

 

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"... There will be an explosion of cases of Ebola in the coming days in For?cariah" warns Makan?ra

Posted by: Ismael Camara 16 hours ago

Makanera Kake and our reporter

Alhousseiny Makan?ra Kake's Communications Minister and patron of the Forecariah prefecture in the response to Ebola. We met Wednesday, January 21 For?cariah. He gives us the latest figures on Ebola. Instead, read the interview he granted us!

Guineetime.com: You are the sponsor of the Forecariah prefecture in the crusade against Ebola. To date, what is the state of evolution of the disease in Moriah?
Alousseiny Makan?ra Kake: From the beginning, there have been 54 confirmed cases For?cariah. But what is important to note is that there were several areas reluctance. But the reluctance of areas are currently being mastered gradually. This makes us believe that there will be an explosion of Ebola cases in the coming days. But this is not alarming because when the zones are closed, you never know what's going on. So the figures we give are often not consistent with the reality on the ground. This curve will explode but after that will fall completely and permanently.

Today morning, there were 9 notifications including 3 suspected cases, forcing us to move quickly to Pamelap. To defeat Ebola quickly, we have a clear strategy that we defined in accordance with the will of the government and against the statement of Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana, now very popular statement, that is to say, the statement that Coyah requires the use of means of awareness as possible and start the public power as necessary while fully respecting the laws of the Republic.

What to date, reluctant to Forecariah homes?
There was actually sub-prefectures Kaback, Pamelap, Sikhourou, Kalia, Allassoyah. But, thanks to the combined action of the security forces, our mission, the prefectural coordinating response to Ebola, the prefect and his collaborators, partners, we were able to reduce the reluctance in some areas such as where we Allassoyah able to extract 3 cases of Ebola. Yesterday [note: Tuesday, January 19] in Dandaya, we were able to secure burial in Maferinyah well, and I am convinced that from today, reluctance to go down in Pamelap where we go to now, reluctance of other areas will follow.

What is the reality of the facts concerning the use of force recently made at Kaback?
I think even mention the use of force is pejorative, because we have simply applied the laws of the republic because the government can not allow citizens burn other citizens and their property . This is Kaback that citizens had hit a pastor and burn his car. Some citizens were arrested in relation to this action, others for burning other public buildings.

But awareness helping, they are the same citizens and residents of the area who have placed under arrest, alleged perpetrators of the fires that are already For?cariah. They are currently being interviewed. All who are innocent are simply released. But the others on which loads weigh, will be made available to the courts for trial according to law.

What can we learn to date as the Ebola statistics in Forecariah prefecture?
In terms of time in statistics, it must be said that there is a trend, but this is not surprising, because the areas remained closed, I think it will explode 72 hours, but after that fall zero.

National coordination against Ebola's objective is to eradicate Ebola by 60 days, she will be the Forecariah prefecture to this appointment?
I would say that For?cariah, we hope to be the appointment of 60 days. We believe that with the quality of the men we found on the ground. For example the prefect For?cariah, the prefectural coordinator For?cariah, security services, and all the partners in the field, we can not say that the risk of error in the two weeks, there 's will be no new infections if in any case, the program we set ourselves is respected because there are realities that do not depend on us. Ie the means which should be made available to the security services and other health workers do not depend on us. But the quality and commitment of field workers are there.

We saw you immediately with the Ambassador of the United States, can we know what you said?
The Ambassador of the United States came to see the actual presence of the villagers watch committees and we exchanged. I believe that this exchange has been successful because often especially Western ambassadors are often deceived by some ngos [note: non-governmental organizations] who report that did not respect human rights, we arrested by one, we stopped by, I told him that we now aim to protect Guineans against Ebola disease. So anyone who is opposed to the implementation of this program that puts an end to the spread of the Ebola virus, will answer before the law. The Government does not accept that some people attack other people, their physical integrity or destroy their property. For example burn someone's car, without the detained without answers before the law. And so it was that he told them, they educate. Ett I told him that's why we are behind them. You sensitize you, we just reinforce this awareness, but those who understand only the language of force, we will oppose their law.

Interview by Ismael Camara

http://guineetime.com/il-y-aura-une...ochains-jours-a-forecariah-previent-makanera/