The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic in 2014 was one of the zoonotic diseases[1] that posed a health security danger to the international community. Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal, and Mali in West Africa were affected, as were the United States and Spain outside of Africa. Nigeria and Senegal, on the other hand, successfully secured it, while others were unable to do it in time. The purpose of this study is to assess Nigeria's approach to combating Ebola using the theory of securitization and to emphasise the lessons that other impacted and non-affected countries, as well as the international community, can learn about how to protect themselves from future pandemics. The paper discussed the military and nonmilitary aspects of security studies, the Nigerian situation and history of Ebola as background, Ebola as a health security threat, the Nigerian approach, the Copenhagen Schools theory of securitization, the Nigerian securitization framework, and major lessons in light of this understanding. The qualitative research approach is utilised in conjunction with secondary data and a focused literature evaluation employing document analysis to produce trustworthy study findings.
Author(S) Details
Tasew Tafese Gashaw
Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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