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- Africa CDC has convened an extraordinary virtual meeting of national health officials for October 28 as the Ebola outbreak spreads.
- Nigeria confirmed an imported case of the Bundibugyo strain in a woman who travelled from Uganda to Abuja.
- WHO's Africa director Mohamed Janabi said the continent faces "a more complex outbreak landscape."
- Africa CDC chief Jean Kaseya urged leaders to avoid politicising the outbreak and to cooperate.
Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has called an extraordinary virtual meeting of national health officials for October 28 after the Ebola outbreak spread from central and eastern Africa into Nigeria, the continent's most populous country.Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya said the meeting would aim to "strengthen our collective response," and warned that the outbreak now affects three regions of Africa. The World Health Organization's regional director for Africa, Mohamed Janabi, said the continent faces "a more complex outbreak landscape" after Nigeria confirmed an imported case of the Bundibugyo strain in a woman who travelled from Uganda to Abuja. Kaseya has urged African leaders not to politicise the response, saying: "We cannot point fingers. We need to come together."