Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that by continuing to scale up the global fight against Ebola, there is hope the outbreak could be contained by mid-2015, but he emphasized that results to date are still uneven, and announced that the Organization’s top health officials will head to Mali, where the situation is still a cause of "deep concern.”;
Ebola: Ban hopeful of outbreak’s end by mid-2015; UN to set up response office in Mali
- 21 November 2014
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