African Union Says a Sixth of Pledged Ebola Workers Ready to Go

African nations have more than 300 health workers ready to deploy in Ebola-affected nations, about a sixth of the number they pledged to help contain an outbreak of the disease, an African Union official said.

Nigeria has about 250 workers “trained for immediate deployment” out of the 600 it committed, while the Democratic Republic of Congo has 53 ready to go after promising 200, said Olawale Maiyegun, the African Union Commission’s director of social affairs. They will be sent to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, he said by phone from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the headquarters of the continental bloc.