Ebola at risk of donor fatigue

The deadly disease of Ebola was in danger of becoming a forgotten tragedy, confined to some of the poorest places on the planet, an international conference heard.

Donor-fatigue had set in with much of the money promised failing to materialise, and amid unprecedented demands from the wars in Syria, Southern Sudan and Iraq, warned the head of GOAL, Barry Andrews in Brussels.

Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, called for a ‘Marshal plan’ for the area and was supported by Ireland’s Minister for Development, Seán Sherlock, the first foreign minister to visit the region last October.