Hogeschool Gent’s three student trainees assigned in the Gambian capital Banjul are returning to Belgium for fear of the ebola virus in West Africa. Last week, five students from the West Flemish Catholic College Vives returned from Guinea. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls the situation in West Africa ‘alarming’. The worrying news about the Ebola virus put Flemish schools with students in the affected countries to be cautious. No Flemish student currently residing in the border area of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia where the disease has already made more than a hundred deaths.

The family of ten Belgian peacekeepers and twelve Belgian civilians who died during the genocide flew to Rwanda Sunday with a Belgian official delegation headed by Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, Minister of Development Jean-Pascal Labille to attend the ceremony commemorating the victims of the genocide, twenty years ago. They were brought to Brussels airport by Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo and expressed in behalf of the Belgian government his profound solidarity with the relatives of the victims.