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    Ebola kills 17 in DR Congo
    (Daily monitor, 2018-05-11) AFP
    Seventeen people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo have died from Ebola. Twenty one cases of fever with hemorrhagic indication and 17 deaths have been recorded in Equateur province.
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    Ebola patients running to pastors, witchdoctors
    (New Vision, 2018-05-24) AFP
    Health workers fighting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have run into an invisible, but powerful hurdle - a belief system that deems the disease to be a curse or a result of evil spirits.
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    Illegal kidney trade booming in Pakistan.
    (New vision, 2017-06-28) AFP
    When Pakistani authorities burst into a makeshift hospital in Lahore this year, doctors were caught midway through two illegal kidney transplants, the local donors and Omani clients still unconscious on the tables. The doctors were allowed to finish the operation then arrested, along with their assistants and the Omanis, in a raid Pakistani authorities say is a turning point in their battle against organ trafficking.
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    Madonna takes kids back to Malawi to open hospital
    (New Vision, 2017-07-12) AFP
    US pop superstar Madonna on Tuesday took her four adopted Malawian children to the opening of a paediatric hospital wing that her charity has built in their home country.
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    Madonna takes kids back to Malawi to open hospital.
    (New vision, 2017-07-12) AFP
    US pop superstar Madonna on Tuesday took her four adopted Malawian children to the opening of a paediatric hospital wing that her charity has built in their country. Standing alongside President peter Mutharika, she unveiled a plaque to mark the completion of the 50-bed facility in Malawi's second city of Blantyre.
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    Nigeria on high alert after ebola outbreak
    (Daily Monitor, 2018-05-15) AFP
    Health officials in Abuja this week moved quickly to introduce emergency measures, including screening visitors from the DRC and neighboring countries. Not only was Nigeria one of the countries affected by the last out break that killed more than 11,000 people across west Africa.
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    Obama in last attempt to save healthcare law.
    (New Vision, 2017-01-05) AFP
    Us president Barack Obama was scheduled to make a short, but politically charged trip from the White House to Capitol Hill yesterday, calling allied lawmakers to arms in defence of his signature healthcare reforms. Obama's eight-years drive to extend medical coverage to tens of millions of Americans will come under sustained assault when president- elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20 with Republican majorities in both house of congress.
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    Outrage as 64 infants die at Indian hospital.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-14) AFP
    A key ally of prime minister Narendra Modi is facing calls for his resignation after at least 64 children died at a government hospital in northern India that suffered oxygen shortages. Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state where the deaths occurred, visited the hospital Sunday as angry relatives rushed to the scene demanding answers.
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    Sex abuse scandal haunts top Catholic cardinal.
    (New vision, 2017-06-30) AFP
    From country priest to trusted top Vatican aide, the rise of Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, George Pell, has been plagued in its twilight by sordid controversies from the past. To his admirers, the 76-year-old cardinal embodies the orthodox traditions of Australian Catholicism, but to his critics, he represents an institution that has failed to properly deal with child sex abuse allegations.