Pharma & health
Dakar gold
On Monday, France’s young rugby sevens players won the country’s first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games, in Dakar. At the same moment, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola passed 5,300 deaths, and four cured patients, a schoolboy among them, walked out of the Beni centre.
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On Monday evening in Dakar, boys of 15 to 17 in blue shirts ended in tears: France’s rugby sevens team won the country’s first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games, the first Games held in Africa, “worthy heirs”, writes RFI. 2,700 athletes are there until 13 November.
More than one patient in two
The same day, the Africa CDC, the African Union’s health agency, counted more than 5,300 Ebola deaths since the spring, the vast majority in the Democratic Republic of Congo: more than one patient in two dies. The United States is closing its borders to travellers who have passed through the DRC. In Beni, this Tuesday morning, four cured patients, a schoolboy among them, walked out of the treatment centre.
In Kismayo, they watch the sky
In Somalia, the disaster agency is waiting for El Niño: 2.5 to 3.5 million people threatened by the floods of the rainy season, more than 400 millimetres forecast. In Kismayo, people watch the sky. A schoolboy walking out cured, a sky that threatens, a medal: three days of Africa in one. Which of the three will you see on the evening news?
Based on L'Équipe, RFI, Le Monde, Africa CDC, ACP and Guadeloupe la 1ère