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Topic: Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

MOSCOW, August 15 (RIA Novosti) – A Nigerian scientist has developed an experimental drug for treating the Ebola virus disease, NAN news agency reported citing Minister for Health Onyebuchi Chukwu.

Chukwu told a news conference that the drug is called Nanosilver and it would be used to treat the eight Nigerians who have tested positive for Ebola.

The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it is ethical to use experimental drugs to treat patients infected with the deadly Ebola virus.

The West African outbreak of the Ebola virus disease, which has no known cure, was declared an international public health emergency by the UN a week ago.

© REUTERS Umaru Fofana

Factbox: Deadly Ebola Virus

According to the WHO, the current Ebola outbreak has already claimed 1,069 lives in the West Africa countries. A total of 1,975 cases have been confirmed.

The worst Ebola outbreak in history started in February in Guinea and then spread to Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever has a fatality rate of nearly 90 percent. The Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of the infected. Symptoms of the disease include sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, kidney and liver problems, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding.

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Sunday, August 17th 2014 at 10:09AM
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History is very important as many of the so-called black americans came from the lands of the Great Songhai Empire of West Africa extending north to Mali down to Gabon on the coast.

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Egyptian Jews began trading with tribes in the northern part of Mali as long ago as biblical times and pushed further and further into the foreboding Sahara throughout the centuries. In the eighth century A.D. the Rhadanites (multi-lingual Jewish traders) settled in Timbuktu and used it as a base from which they could solidify their trade routes through the desert. In the 14th and 15th centuries Jews fleeing Spanish persecution settled in Timbuktu. Members of the Kehath (Ka'ti) family founded three villages that still exist near Timbuktu -- Kirshamba, Haybomo, and Kongougara. In 1492, King Askia Muhammed took power in Timbuktu and threatened Jews who did not convert to Islam with execution. Some Jews fled, some converted, some remained in Mali and faced centuries of persecution and the occasional massacre. By the 20th century there were no practicing Jews in Mali.

However, in the 1990s Malian Jewry has begun to experience a revival. Ismael Diadie Haidara, a historian from Timbuktu, has been at the forefront of the movement to explore Mali’s Jewish past. In 1993 Haidara established Zakhor (the Timbuktu Association for Friendship with the Jewish World) as an informal association of Malian descendants of Jews. Zakhor’s members hope to teach their children about their Jewish heritage, learn and use Hebrew as a second language and publish histories of their ancestry. In Timbuktu alone there are almost a thousand descendants of Jews who have become interested in exploring their identity.

Finally, the vast majority of Hebrews migrated into Western Africa/Sudan, along the Western Coast of Africa and sojourned there for over fifteen hundred years (70 AD - 1619 AD). The Hebrews became a dominant factor in establishing many of the cultures throughout Western Africa, including the following countries:

In Ghana, the Hebrews were identified as the Ashantee
In Mali, the indigenous people were identifed as the Mandinka, however, they were not Hebrews
In Songhay, the city of Timbuktu, which was a great center of education and commerce and many of the indigenous people were Hebrews
Guinea, which was Known as the Gold Coast, also had a significant numbers of Hebrews.

According to the writings of Eldad the Danite, a famous Algerian Jewish author of the ninth century, Ghana was a Hebrew nation which followed the Law of Moses. The people of Ghana traced their roots to Jews of the First Diaspora of 600 BC, who were forcibly expelled from Israel by the Assyrians. In support of this, Eldad reported that the Ghanans possessed the Torah, which was compiled before the Diaspora, but not the Talmud, which was compiled in Jerusalem and Babylon much later, during the early centuries of the Christian era.

Iberian Jews of Yoruba Nationality

The Bnai Ephraim (“Children of Ephraim”) from Nigeria, live among the Yoruba nationalities. Their oral history tells that the Bnai Ephraim people came from Morocco after the Jews were banished from the Iberian Pennisula sometime after 1492.

They speak a dialect that is a mixture of Moroccan Arabic, Yoruba, and Aramaic. They are known by the Yoruba people as the “Emo Yo Quaim”, or “strange people”. Unlike other African Israelite communities in Nigeria, the Bnai Ephraim have the Torah, portions of which they keep in their sanctuaries.

The Bnai Ephraim provides a living and irrefutable proof of this barely known history of mass Jewish re-settlement in West Africa, between 1492 and 1692, a 200 year non-stop return of Jews to Africa. This set of Moorish refugees are not to be confused with more ancient Hebrew and Canaanite tribes that had been living in Nigeria and other African countries for thousands of years.

The following is a partial list of the various tribes throughout north, south, east and west Africa who are descendants of the Hebrew Israelite nation:
1) Beta Israel/Falasha- Ethiopia 2) Abayudaya-Uganda 3) Tutsi- Rwanda 4) Rusape- Zimbabwe 5) Lemba- South Africa
6) Sefwi Wiawso- Ghana 7) Ashanti- Ghana Ga- Ghana 9) Ewe- Ghana 10) B’nai Ephraim(sons of Ephraim)- Yoruba, Nigeria
11) Lam-Lam- Timbuktu 12) Katsena- Nigeria 13)Zafin Ibrahim- Malagasy Republic 14) Ibo- Nigeria

Sunday, August 17th 2014 at 10:23AM
Yaiqab Saint

I was told many years ago by some Nigerian Students that an English colonial doctor did studies on the Meeshwak, the root or branch many African Asians use to clean their teeth AND extracted enough information from this item to Develop a better toothpaste and aspirin pill.

Oh, 150 Million Hard Working Intellignet People, Oil, Atlantic, Forests: Yes---if they could choose better leadership than a GoodLuck Jonathan ---- their Greatness is needed in the world.

Sunday, August 17th 2014 at 10:43AM
powell robert

@Robert

Absolutely and Nigeria has many friends in the East that will help them contain Ebola and defeat this virus within the West African geography!
Sunday, August 17th 2014 at 10:58AM
Yaiqab Saint

"Ebola Epidemic Most Likely Much Larger Than Reported, W.H.O. Says"

GENEVA — West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic is probably much worse than the world realizes, with health centers on the front lines warning that the actual numbers of deaths and illnesses are significantly higher than the official estimates, the World Health Organization said.
So far, 2,127 cases of the disease and 1,145 deaths have been reported in four nations — Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone — the W.H.O announced Friday. But the organization has also warned that the actual number is almost certainly higher, perhaps by a very considerable margin.
“Staff at the outbreak sites see evidence that the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak,” the group said in a statement on Thursday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/world/af...

Monday, August 18th 2014 at 12:02AM
Jeni Fa

Well it good to know that not all the brilliant Nigerians are departed the country, but are staying and helping their own people with their talents. It's a very sore spot in my heart when it comes to Nigerians and how they don't try to change things at home but complain without end about what should happen or what the politicians can do to make the country better as when it was under the British control.

Monday, August 18th 2014 at 12:06AM
Jeni Fa

Do you have the link for this article?

Monday, August 18th 2014 at 12:11AM
Jeni Fa