{"id":1587,"date":"2014-11-14T07:13:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2014-11-14T07:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:13:02","slug":"liberia-to-end-ebola-state-of-emergency-africa-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Liberia to end Ebola state of emergency &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/11\/liberia-end-ebola-state-emergency-201411145555126551.html\">Liberia to end Ebola state of emergency &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ctl00_cphBody_dvSummary\" class=\"articleSumm\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px;\">President Sirleaf says while country has made progress against virus, more still needs to be done to end the epidemic.<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; color: #000000;\">Liberia&#8217;s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said that she would not seek an extension to a state of emergency imposed in August over Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>Her announcement on Thursday is a sign of progress in the fight against the disease, which has killed more than 2,800 people in Liberia since breaking out in West Africa in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thus, having consulted relevant stakeholders, the national health team and partners, I have informed the leadership of the National Legislature that I will not seek an extension to the State of Emergency,&#8221; Sirleaf told a news briefing in the capital Monrovia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia to end Ebola state of emergency &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English. President Sirleaf says while country has made progress against virus, more still needs to be done to end the epidemic. Liberia&#8217;s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said that she would not seek an extension to a state of emergency imposed in August over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,232,1112,607],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-liberia","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}