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Ebola Scare: Delta Airline stopped from disembarking passengers from Liberia

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  • Asem 9 years ago

    The Ghanaian authorities should put their feet down to prevent this without any intimidation. Also, we should check Liberians from the refugee camp in Bujumbura. Ebola is real and it kills so quick.

  • kwesi atta 9 years ago

    Great Move.For once my people are behaving as independent thiking women and men who know how to say BG NO to even AmericaThis is the kind of bold leadership we need to be free from slavery

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Why will a flight from Liberia to USA, westward come eastward, about two hours flight to refuel or disembark passengers before flying back westward again?

    Second, there is no American citizens evacuation from Liberia.

    T ...
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  • J Ananga 9 years ago

    Whether true or false story, I think this is the right kind of response to a situation if even hypothetical. It doesn't matter whether they would screen our President or not, the fact is that there is a deadly killer out ther ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    I am not saying it is not right. If this is a true story, then the government of Ghana should be applauded but this is not true so why is the government coming out with a story that is not true and you are telling me this pro ...
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  • Imran Gomdah 9 years ago

    I thought you had proofs to substantiate your claim. If it's a guess work you're doing, why choose that side?

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    The proof is that, USA has evacuated a Doctor and a Missionary from Liberia to USA without refuelling in Ghana. A flight from Liberia to USA don't need refuelling unless there is no fuel in Liberia.

    If you are flying westw ...
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  • Per Diem 9 years ago

    Fool, that was a special flight with confirmed a patient.

  • Socrates 9 years ago

    Exactly. That evacuation involved a private Lear jet Lear jets have a maximum capacity of 2 crew members and 8 passengers. It's a different story flying a big passenger airplane with no less than 200 people on board. Fuel req ...
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  • TT 9 years ago

    This is how stupid some people are. Don't we have commercial flights from New York to Accra direct? You don't need refueling when you are travelling from Liberia to USA.

    There is no armed conflict anywhere along the path ...
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  • Ghfuo, heaven is NOT for idiots! 9 years ago

    uahahahaaaaaaaaa, so the 1 ebola visitor who arrived in Ghana was killed by firing squad? I just heard this from Ghana this afternoon. Small school fees nti look at how news is being manufactured like chopnar business

  • Marvis 9 years ago

    I work at Kotoka Airport Operations department, flights from Liberia to USA do not refuel at Kotoka and rather it is flights from Kotoka to USA that sometimes have to refuel and drop passengers or pick up passengers on its wa ...
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  • Naa 9 years ago

    why are you calling him a fool ignoramus . Pardon me, you rather *ignaromus* i guess.

  • AMEGAKURE 9 years ago

    You don't have to believe it if you don't want to! All you have to do is to ignore it!
    Meanwhile, make sure you clean that old man's arse properly & Enjoy your live-in job!

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Read my response to Imran Gomodah

  • Ken Ntiamoa 9 years ago

    That comment of yours is absolutely not necessary. You have also completely deviated from the topic.


    Ken

  • rOB 9 years ago

    Today we just read that the Americans have had a treatment for Ebola, even if it was not yet approved for human use, all this while, while Africans were dying from Ebola. The moment the first two of their nationals caught the ...
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  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    As much as I hate some aspect of American policies,they have a point not to immediately bring the experimental drug to be tried on Africans.

    If you do follow the news, some African families started suspecting that they wer ...
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  • Military Man 9 years ago

    Good point, rOB.

    We don't have the treatment here so why bring their nationals here to 'contaminate' us?

    The Americans should have brought the trial drug along with their plane evacuation plane.

    Let them keep their ...
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  • Imran Gomdah 9 years ago

    Sarpong, I thought persons with negative thinking like you have long changed. Why do you see negativity in things that are so apparent? The flight was Delta, right? The passengers were said to be Americans, right? Where were ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    What is false that you don't understand? There was no flight or planned flight from Liberia with America evacuees that is/was denied.

    America evacuated the medical doctor and the missionary that were infected without stopp ...
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  • peeeeee 9 years ago

    Sarp.you have time for these ignorant idiots imran

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Peeee, we cannot ignore our ignorant fool soldiers. They need our help. Their brains are not well developed so they need our help.

  • peeeeee 9 years ago

    You have time for idiotic fools Imran amegakure??

  • Kpeblo 9 years ago

    Ghana web cannot even confirm this news yes they went ahead and published it which is disturbing for a national website. America has the means to test its citizens in Liberia and evacuate if needed. Who ever cooked this story ...
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  • MANU 9 years ago

    Sarpong be that. He knows it all.

  • Marvis 9 years ago

    Sorry, he might have that reputation but he is right about this one. Flights from Liberia to USA don't refuel in Ghana so why now?

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Thanks for the compliments. Don't hate me for your know nothing stupidity.

  • Humanity 9 years ago

    YES

  • Senior Wisdom 9 years ago

    Americans will not agree to any such thing if Ghana requested it and we totally oppose such a move. Delta can move the Americans from Liberia to the US.

  • Ali 9 years ago

    For the first time, a very good move by Ghana. If America is to screen our visiting president for ebola, why should we allow their screened or unscreened citizens on our soil. Reciprocity is the language of diplomacy. You do ...
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  • BOY ALINKO 9 years ago

    I SUPPORT YOU 100% FOR REFUSING. AMERICANS WILL HAVE REFUSED AS WELL.

  • Kwesi - USA 9 years ago

    Whoever that Gov't official is, kudos to you and the Security Apparatus.
    This is what we expect from you. Protect the interest of your tax payers, your citizens. Well done. Delta can fly them direct to the US let them do it. ...
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  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 9 years ago

    WATCH THIS PAGE FOR CAPITULATION OR RETRACTION BY THE GOONS RUNNING GHANA ON THIS MATTER VERY SOON.

  • Agbesi 9 years ago

    STOP THIS FOOLISH PROPAGANDA DISGRACED, FOOLISH MAN, mAHAMA (Yes small m). GO FOR YOUR EBOLA TESTING, BEFORE YOU GO TO AMERICA, IDIOT DECEPTIVE SON OF A WHORE.

    THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THIS STORY. IN FACT DELTA HAS NOT EVEN OP ...
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  • Samson 9 years ago

    Why would a plane from Liberia to US which is westward across the Atlantic Ocean travel east to Ghana to refuel. This story seems to have been made up to make us think officials in Ghana are doing something about Ebola. The l ...
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  • Frank 9 years ago

    Ghanaweb carried a fake story over the weekend that planes from Nigeria were banned from landing in Ghana. Is this another fake story? The fact that there is no official's name makes it suspicious. You should check your sourc ...
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  • Seth uk 9 years ago

    why

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  • KOJO BEMPA BEMPA- Paris 9 years ago

    Is Mahama denying America at the time they need help?(just a landing space)
    The reason is genuine but we must think
    again because Mahama will soon turn up
    to the Americans for help.The Bible have
    said that you will always ...
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  • Ghanaian wimp 9 years ago

    By tomorrow not only will Ebola patients be allowed in Ghana but they will be able to rub their fluid filled hands all over ghanaians... We are a nation of cowards who hold no weight!!

  • AMO 9 years ago

    Will Americans allow Ghana to do this in their country? Our leaders took a wise decision.

  • NIMO 9 years ago

    I think that is the only way forward. Why wouldn´t they refuel in Senegal if these people have no other motives? I hundred percent support the Authorities that say NO to these bullies. By the way,is Kwame Ahoofe listening? I ...
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  • francis 9 years ago

    I am in Monrovia presently and can tell you as a matter of fact that America is NOT evacuating citizens from Liberia. A statement to that effect was last published 31 July. By the way, why will an evacuation flight Liberia-Am ...
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  • Obuabasa 9 years ago

    This nothing, but an attempt to cover up the possible misdeeds that may have occurred,or taking take place as we speak, by our own corrupt public officials,who will do anything for money!

  • Nii Tsokor 9 years ago

    America is evacuating all Peace Corps volunteers from Liberia ,Guinea and Sierra Leone.It is all over CNN.

  • Rev. NANA ADJEI NTOW 9 years ago

    If this news is true, then welldone to the Ghanaian authorities. We are slaves of America. They MUST MUST MUST not be able to do whatever they want to our precious country. America would never have allowed it if it were the o ...
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  • TEE 9 years ago

    THANK GOD THE BLACK MAN IS NOW THINKING PERIOD

  • peeeeee 9 years ago

    You call lies thinking???

  • TEE 9 years ago

    IS VERY WRONG FROM THE AMERICANS YES WRONG PERIOD

  • GOLD 9 years ago

    1. No diplomatic freebies in UK for Ghana MPs.

    2. No ebola plane in Ghana.

    Can't Delta leave for the U. S. straight from Monrovia?
    After all, Liberia is closer than Ghana to the U.S., so why are they trying to use Gha ...
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  • OBINIMA OBIKY3R3. 9 years ago

    So far this is the best decision this lame Government has taken since 2008.

  • OBINIMA OBIKY3R3. 9 years ago

    Re; Typo-correction. So far this is the best decision this lame Government has taken since 2008.

  • Mena Maaaboa 9 years ago

    Wise decision indeed!. If America can fly a single doctor to a special facility in Atlanta directly, why can it fly these Passengers, who are it's own citizens direct to the US?. The reason is simply that US want to protect i ...
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  • akwesii 9 years ago

    Stupid ghanaians u believe this rubish story hahahaha

  • Obuabasa 9 years ago

    Officials, it will not surprise me one bit to learn later on that this evacuation scheme is already going on! Our penchant for 'redtape' is so overwhelming that the Americans will short-circuit our control mechanisms to their ...
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  • Bettina 9 years ago

    We'll done Goverment Autority desition , don't mind this American people .
    Why Ghana to refill their plane they have another's country where they can do .
    Ask them if is Ghana who need to evacuation our citizen from the ...
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  • Ghanaian To The Core 9 years ago

    You want to screen our president when he comes to America and at the same time want to dump your citizens from a country identified with the disease killer - ebola into Ghana, my beloved country. Mr America, take them straigh ...
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  • BIG JAY 9 years ago

    Well done! A good one there. America cannot use Ghana to quarantine its citizens suspected of contracting the Ebola virus before sending them to America. Why Ghana? This is crazy, and America can go to hell.
    America cannot ...
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  • Onslopogas 9 years ago

    You guys have to take pre-cautional measures now. Ghanaians who visit home from abroad are going to be strictly pass through a health check routine before they can enter town. Health officials must wake up!!

  • NBTT 9 years ago

    The Americans want to test president Mahama and other African leaders before they let them into the USA.American airlines carrying potentially infected passengers must not be allowed to stop over in Ghana even for refueling. ...
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  • Dorcoo Fred Elikem 9 years ago

    Ebola free Ghana,God bless our homeland Ghana.

  • me 9 years ago

    For the first time Ghana ha`s shown it has balls. Keep it up and do not let anybody influence your decisions.

  • Ama 9 years ago

    Well done!

  • NANA AKUFO ADDO 9 years ago

    DURING A MEETING AT THE EMBASSY, IT WAS AGREED THAT THEY WILL PRETEND THAT THE PLANE NEEDS REFUELING BUT AS SOON AS IT LANDS THEY WILL DISEMBARK THE EBOLA INFESTED CARGOES WITH TWO LEGS. BOLD MOVE INDEED. LONG LIVE NDC. LONG ...
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  • Aboagye 9 years ago

    plz Ghana should not agree to this...why cant they take them to senegal which is more closer...

  • KWAKU NTAWA TAWA 9 years ago

    THE WISEST MOVE EVER BY THIS GOVERNMENT.

  • faithgrows 9 years ago

    GOOD JOB DONE....

  • Sankofa 9 years ago

    We call on the authorities to stand firm.

    The decision not to allow Delta passengers to stop over at Accra is a sensible precaution. It is also sensible to ask Delta to use Dakar for refuelling as Dakar is geographically ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 9 years ago

    THEY THINK THEY ARE SMARTER THAN US, BUT THEY ARE THE DIMEST PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET IN MY LIFE.
    IF THEY CAN BRING SUCH A HUMILIATION TO THE CONTINENT BY SCREENING OUR LEADERS FOR IBOLA IN AMERICA BEFORE ENTERING THE WHITE HO ...
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  • peeeeee 9 years ago

    Samson and Francis have said it.why gly east to go west.u can travel to the moon direct these days.and you fools buy this story

  • Charles Adjetey Sowah 9 years ago

    Ghanaians in Italy are proud of our gov't for this wise decision which is in the supreme interest or our dear nation, Mother Ghana. Obama should remember that he screened our President when he set foot onto his American soil. ...
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  • foolish man 9 years ago

    well done

  • Angel 9 years ago

    HEY, LET US BE FRANK: THE SAFEST WAY TO PREVENT EBOLA IN GHANA IS TO BAN ALL FLIGHTS FROM THE COUNTRIES WHERE EBOLA IS PRESENT: NIGERIA, GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA. SERIOUS'OOO!!

  • koosekyi usa 9 years ago

    Ghanaian authorities should be firm
    don't allow any airline from Liberia
    to land in ghana ebola is a deadly
    disease no cure

  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    According to the Nigerian minister of health, the Nigerian Doctor who treated the Liberian Ebola patient who passed away in Nigeria, has himself tested positive for the Ebola virus.

    According to the WORLD HEALTH OGANIZATIO ...
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  • Military Man 9 years ago

    Mawuli,

    I think it's time for our leaders to have the 'balls' to close our borders.

    Why should we be bothered by what others will say.

    If the shoe was on the other foot, their borders would have been locked down tigh ...
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  • shemmy 9 years ago

    I am an American and never heard about any evacuation from Liberia to Ghana.. this is sooooo wrong and unprofessional by this Ghana news website to gave as afalse story..

  • Jim 9 years ago

    there's a proverb that say: when your neighbor house is on fire, dont sit there and laugh or blame him for the fire.. help him turn of the fire.. becuz u never knw whn your fire will start.. Ghanaplease stop this discriminati ...
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  • Pround pepeni. 9 years ago

    The simple question is, will America have allowed Ghana to put possibly infected citizen into America for even 1 hour?

  • Military Man 9 years ago

    For once in the life of the NDC government, someone is actually using his or her head.

    KUDOS to whoever this government official is!!!!

    You keep on doing somethings like this and you would be surprised at how grateful ...
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  • Ali Ibrahim 9 years ago

    The piece of story u guys posted over here without any confirmation to me is absolutely unprofessional. However, u guys should know that Ebola virus is not something to be joked with or take for granted. Being unprofessional ...
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  • Janet Brew 9 years ago

    Very Sad that people don't use their brain. Firstly, Ghana stated that they cannot confirm the story. This tells you that something is wrong with the story. Secondly, why would the U.S. take the evacuees to Ghana before going ...
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  • Gandalf 9 years ago

    WITH A DOCTOR IN NIGERIA CATCHING THE EBOLA VIRUS, OUR HEALTH AUTHORITIES SHOULD BY NOW BE DISTRIBUTING SAFETY CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT THAT CAN PROTECT DOCTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL STAFF. REPORTS ON BBC INDICATE OVER 70 PEOPLE WH ...
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