By AGENCY STAFF –
African Union (AU) chiefs held an emergency meeting on Monday to hammer out a continent-wide strategy to deal with the Ebola epidemic, which has killed more than 2,000 people in West Africa.
“Fighting Ebola must be done in a manner that doesn’t fuel isolation or lead to the stigmatisation of victims, communities and countries,” said AU commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, speaking at the opening of the meeting.
Ms Dlamini-Zuma told the executive council of the 54-member body, meeting at the AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, of the urgent need to “craft a united, comprehensive and collective African response” to the outbreak.
The meeting also aimed to discuss “the suspension of flights, and maritime and border closures,” according to an AU statement.
