The World Bank President Jim Yong Kim during a presentation last Friday of the plans for the financial recovery of the countries affected by Ebola in West Africa. Photo EPA / Pete Marovich
Netherlands gives five million to an investment fund that was established to promote economic recovery in the African countries affected by Ebola. Development minister Lilianne Ploumen for Development and Foreign Trade (PvdA) said yesterday in Washington.
The fund, which was set up by the World Bank, had previously promised all support from Russia, Japan, Norway and Denmark. The aim is the economy of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia to give a helping hand. The three countries are the hardest hit by the virus, which in March last year began to spread. According to the World Health Organization has the infectious disease now claimed more than 10,000 lives in West Africa. Ebola now seems to have waned, but the virus has not disappeared.
The fund is separate from the commitment of $ 650 million (601 million) support that the World Bank did earlier this week to the three countries . According to the Development Bank is in the first months of this year for about $ 2.2 billion (EUR 2 billion) in lost economic activity.
Ploumen in Washington for the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She said that the Netherlands next to the gift of 5 million will also organize a trade mission to the affected Ebola countries
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