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    Wednesday, March 23, 2016

    SPORT NEWS : African Union refuses to match the transfer of Guinea, despite the threat of Ebola .

    Confederation of African Football said on Wednesday that he rejects the request for the transfer of match within the African Nations Cup qualifier was held in Guinea, despite confirmation of the emergence of new cases of infection with Ebola virus.


    Malawi requested that the match be moved in African qualifying Group 12, which was scheduled in Conakry on Friday after Guinea announcement last week's discovery of two cases of Ebola virus.
    It had been Guinea currently free of Ebola and raise the African Union for the game last January, the ban on hosting international matches.
    The Confederation of African Football said in a statement: "Following the correspondence exchanged this subject between the Secretariat of the African Union and the Organization of the World Health Organization said the new cases were discovered in Nzerekore region, which is famous for the spread of forest in Guinea, adding that he is not to impose any ban on travel to Guinea organized by which it means the absence of any threat to host a football match in Conakry. "
    Friday's match will be the first international match at home to Guinea since August 2014. During that period, he forced Guinea to contest their matches scheduled at home in Casablanca, Morocco.
    It is believed that the largest recorded outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in the world has started in Guinea and has killed 2,500 people as of December / December of last year, the World Health Organization declared then that the virus is not transmitted efficiently among humans.

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