According to NASA, which operates the Aqua satellite, over 67,000 fires were reported in a one-week period in June last year, as farmers employed slash and burn agriculture to clear land for crops.
In a second bag belonging to Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice president and son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, $1.5 million in cash was found, allegedly for medical treatment far from home.
So far, 393 people have been identified as part of the “ring” around people who are known or suspected to have been infected in the Congo.
The addition of Chad took that country’s government by surprise and bewildered analysts of Central Africa.