Timeline of AU Response to the Ebola Outbreak

17 April 2014 1st African Ministers of Health Meeting in Luanda, Angola issues communique
July 30 PRC agrees to hold special sessions on Ebola. This paved the way got the meeting of the Executive Council
August 2014 $1, 000 000 is released from AU’s Special Emergency Assistance Fund for Drought and Famine in Africa
8 August WHO declares Ebola a public health emergency of international concern.
18th August Information sharing session held between the AUC and the PRC and partners
19 August Peace and Security Council meets- authorizes immediate deployment of AU-led Military and Civilian Humanitarian Mission
20 August ASEOWA is formed
25 Aug-5 Sept AU team carries out evaluation/ assessment mission to three Ebola affected countries, and Senegal
5 September AUC staff members donate $100,000
8 September Emergency session of the Executive Council on Ebola held to adopt a common position and define appropriate strategies to enable Africa to effectively combat the Ebola epidemic
15 September ASEOWA head of mission arrives in Liberia
18 September UN Security Council declares Ebola a threat to international peace and security
19 September First ASEOWA team of 19 arrives Liberia
24 September Chairperson addresses special session on Ebola at the UN General Assembly
28 September- 14 October DSA Commissioner visits Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone
19 September UN General Assemby approves resolutions creating the UN mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER)
23-25 October AUC Chairperson visits affected countries
2 October ASEOWA team of 27deployed to Liberia and Sierra Leone
31 October ASEOWA volunteers deployed to eight counties in Monrovia to start work
8 November African Business Roundtable on Ebola held and raises an initial USD31 million from the private sector and AfDB
9 November 3rd ASEOWA batch of 38 deployed mostly to Guinea
3 December 196 ASEOWA health workers deployed to affected countries from Nigeria
3 December SMS campaign and AfricaAgainstEbola website launched in Nigeria
16 December 187 Ethiopian health workers are deployed
26 December 82 health workers from the Democratic Republic of Congo are deployed
9 January 170 Kenyans leave Nairobi to join the ASEOWA team in the Ebola affected countries