Health workers in protective gear pose at the entrance of the Ebola
treatment unit of the John F. Kennedy Medical Centre in the Liberian
capital, Monrovia, on Monday, October 13, 2014. Kenyans who have been
stranded in Liberia following the Ebola outbreak will be flown in next
week, the Foreign Affairs ministry said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO | AFP
Kenyans who have been stranded in
Liberia following the Ebola outbreak will be flown in next week, the
Foreign Affairs ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry
said evacuation arrangements had been finalised, but noted that the
process had taken long because "necessary precautionary measures had to
be addressed".
The Kenyans have been stranded there for
the past two months since national carrier Kenya Airways stopped plying
the West African route.
In August, the airline
suspended flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone, following the Ebola
outbreak that has so far killed more than 4,500 in the region.
In
halting the flights, Kenya Airways chief executive Titus Naikuni said
the decision was based on the situation risk assessment by Kenya’s
Ministry of Health.
Through its official Twitter
account on Tuesday, the Foreign Affairs ministry said that Kenyans
constitute the largest bloc of civilian expatriates in Liberia, saying
it has been following on their welfare keenly.
It
further said that Kenya had joined other countries in helping affected
western Africa countries to contain the "unprecedented" Ebola epidemic.
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