‘Time for Africa to pull together’
May 09, 2021
3 minutes
ERNEST BAI KOROMA
MARTINE PERRET
UNMEER
WHEN the devastating Ebola virus broke out in Guinea in 2013, it did not only spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia; it also threatened the world.
By the time the outbreak ended in 2016, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, had lost more than 11 000 people and $2.8 billion in GDP, according to the World Bank.
Cases were reported in Nigeria, in several other African countries and in countries as far as the US and in Europe.
At the time, I was the president of Sierra Leone and had
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