Delivering his final press conference as head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury today pointed to significant progress in tackling the outbreak since he was appointed in September last year, while stressing that zero cases is the only acceptable outcome in the “big battle” with the disease.
Outgoing head of UN Ebola mission sums up progress in ‘big battle’ with outbreak
- 02 January 2015
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