Sudan has prohibited local media from covering any news related to the Ebola virus. According to the government, it is for security reasons that they have circulated warning to all media outlets not to publish any news or articles related to the transmission of the Ebola virus in Sudan.

The prohibition was issued after local media reported on suspected cases of Ebola in the west of Sudan.

“The Minister of Health Affairs for the Darfur Regional Authority, Firdos Abdel Rahman Yousif denied reports of the deadly Ebola virus disease in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur State,” reports Star Africa.

According to the Sudan News Agency, the minister said the suspected case had come from Abeche in Chad. The patient had hemorrhagic fever, began taking treatment from the health center, and was then transferred to a hospital in El Geneina.