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COMMENTARY: Journalism lessons learned from Ebola apply to COVID-19 fight in Africa
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When I first started to cover the Ebola outbreak in 2014, it was like travelling without knowing where and why I was travelling.
It all started in May 2014, when the first Ebola patient died right in the street, not far from where I work. At that time, many people did not believe there existed anything called Ebola.
Many thought it was a plan by western counties in collaboration with their leaders to kill them all. They did not trust their leaders, whom they accused of being too corrupt, thinking they were only trying to source money from international donors to enrich themselves.
At one point, they believed that their water sources had been poisoned with chemicals as a trial for health purposes. As I was the only journalist at the time in
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