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Chief correspondent in Nigeria for Reuters
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Tim Cocks
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FROM Tim Cocks
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Ebola Virus Spreads to Lagos, Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria, is a city of 21 million people — and the first large urban center hit by an outbreak of the Ebola virus. Tim Cocks of the Reuters news service reports that health officials call Lagos “a perfect environment for the virus to spread.” We’ll hear about efforts to prevent further spread of a deadly virus with no known cure, and about ethical questions: Should medications be administered even when they’ve never been tested on human beings? And who should be first to get them?
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Missing Nigerian Girls It's been almost three weeks since the Islamist group Boko Haram snatched hundreds of schoolgirls from a small Nigerian town. Today, Boko Haram's leader threatened to sell the girls, according to a French news agency that received a video from the group. The kidnapping is embarrassing Nigeria, which is hosting the World Economic Forum for Africa this week.
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