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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Friday, announced the appointments of Senior Special Assistants (SSAs), saying it will promote inclusive governance and facilitate speedy implementations of government policies. In a statement from the Office of the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, it was revealed that the government was keen to fulfil its promise of accountability to the people and ensure the actualisation of government policies across the 18 local governments in the state. The statement read: “Those that were selected in this appointment process applied from the Local Government Areas. They are a reflection of the people’s desires, aimed at service delivery”. Added to this, it was revealed that the appointments were made with great foresight adding that the political appointees would bring about a boon in the state’s economy. “On assumption of office, these carefully selected individuals will be deployed to support the governor in various para...

http://ift.tt/2qZWo7d A Yemeni child, suspected of being infected with cholera, receives treatment at a hospital in Sanaa on May 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Mohammed HUWAIS A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen has killed 242 people, and left nearly 23,500 others sick in the past three weeks alone, the World Health Organization said Friday. The UN health agency said that in the past day alone, 20 cholera deaths and 3,460 suspected cases had been registered in the country, where two-thirds of the population are on the brink of famine. “The speed of the resurgence of this cholera epidemic is unprecedented,” WHO country representative for Yemen Nevio Zagaria told reporters in Geneva by phone from Yemen, warning that a quarter of a million people could become sick by the end of the year. Cholera is a highly contagious bacterial infection spread through contaminated food or water. Reining in the disease is particularly complicated in Yemen, where two years of devastating war betw...