African Union to raise a 750 Million USD Ebola Fund for West Africa

The African Union on Saturday created a 750-million dollar special fund for curbing the spread of Ebola Virus Disease in some parts of West Africa. Dr. Dlamini Zuma, the Chairperson of the AU Commission, announced this shortly after a business round table with members of the private sector at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa on Saturday. http://www.nigerianeye.com/2014/11/au-to-raise-750m-to-fight-ebola.html The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the commission had invited the private sector to raise the funds as part of effort to deploy more volunteer workers to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The commission observed the virus had infected some 13,000 people and had killed 4,900 so far. The commission had also deployed 146 volunteers on the platform of AU programme on Ebola to the affected countries within the last two months. Zuma said that the fund would be managed by a private sector-led board while the AfDB would administer it.