Top African business leaders pledged $28.5 million to support the damage caused by the Ebola outbreak on the continent amid criticism that the continent was not doing enough to mitigate the effects of the outbreak. Business leaders agreed to provide the African Union (AU) with the money, which will fund the dispatching of 1,000 health workers to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as part of an Ebola crisis fund. In early November, the AU announced that it was seeking funding from some of the continent’s richest people, including Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, to cover the cost of paying volunteer doctors and nurses fighting Ebola. The AU was trying to raise $35 million in the first round and roughly $100 million for the Business-to-Rescue Fund.
http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/10/african-union-steps-its-financial-support-victims-ebola-outbreak-following-criticism
http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/10/african-union-steps-its-financial-support-victims-ebola-outbreak-following-criticism
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