Time for business to get involved in Africa Ebola battle – AfDB chief


  • World
  • Wednesday, 24 Sep 2014

LONDON (Reuters) - West African nations hit by the Ebola virus epidemic will need international help to rebuild for years to come and it is time for mining companies and business to get involved, the head of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Tuesday.

Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever, has killed 2,811 people since March this year in an epidemic centred around the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

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