Ebola
outbreak: Africa sets up $28.5m crisis fund
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Top African business leaders have established an
emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak.
A pledging meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised $28.5m to deploy at
least 1,000 health workers to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Experts say that if the disease is to be speedily contained, it needs to be tackled in these three countries.
Nearly 5,000 people out of about 14,000 cases have been killed by the virus, most of them in Liberia.
Speaking at the end of the Addis Abada meeting, African
Union chairman Dlamini Zuma said the resources mobilised would be part of a
longer term programme to deal with such outbreaks in the future.
It’s good to hear that people are coming out to help fight
Ebola in Africa......#StopEbola
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