United Nations, Muharram 25, 1436, November 18, 2014, SPA -- The chief of the U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission (UNMEER) in Guinea died suddenly Monday of natural causes, said the U.N. mission and authorities in Guinea, one of the three West African countries at the epicenter of the epidemic. Marcel Rudasingwa, who was a U.N. assistant secretary-general, was appointed to the UNMEER position in Guinea last month. A Rwandan national, he previously had worked for the U.N Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for nearly 20 years, the mission said in a statement. “Marcel played a pivotal role in the organization’s and the international community’s response to the Ebola crisis in Guinea,” said UNMEER chief Anthony Banbury. Authorities in Guinea said Rudasingwa showed no sign of having contracted the deadly Ebola virus. UNMEER coordinates the global response to the epidemic that has killed at least 5,165 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. --SPA 12:55 LOCAL TIME 09:55 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w