Invitations to three Nigerian students to attend an
international conference has been "politely withdrawn" by a university
in South Korea over Ebola fears.
The students were
scheduled to attend the World Congress of Global Partnership for Young
Women from Monday, August 4 to August 15 at the Duksung Women's
University in the S. Korean capital, Seoul.
The
university however says it has "politely withdrawn" the invitation over
fears that the Ebola virus may spread to the country.
According to some reports, over 15,000 people signed an online petition against the "dangerous" invitations over the weekend.
Some
of them, including bloggers, called for the cancellation of the
conference which is hosted in conjunction with the United Nations Entity
for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
But
the university's authorities says it will go on with the conference
which twenty-eight (28) students from Africa are expected to attend.
"Since
it is a cooperative event with the UN Women, we cannot cancel the
invitations of all students from Africa or the whole conference," an
official from the university said in an RT report.
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