Ebola: World Bank Group Provides New Financing to Help Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Recover from Ebola Emergency

TANZANIA imepata madaktari watano waliojitolea kwenda nchi za Sierra Leone na Liberia kusaidia kutoa huduma ya ugonjwa wa ebola. Akizungumza na Waandishi wa Habari jijini Dar es Salaam jana, Mganga...

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.

Significant new assistance planned for hardest-hit countries

Following alarming evidence of the spread of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the World Bank Group today announced that it will nearly double its financing to $400 million to help the worst-affected countries address the emergency and build stronger health systems for the years ahead

This represents $170 million in new funding. With today’s announcement, the Bank will put $230 million...

Ahead of World Education Forum 2015, Bank Group says poor education quality has ‘serious consequences’ for ending extreme poverty
INCHEON, Republic of Korea, May 18, 2015 – On the eve of the landmark World Education Forum 2015, the World Bank Group announced that it will double results-based financing for education to US$5 billion over the next five years. The new financing is part of the Bank Group’s commitment to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030 by improving both the quality and...

Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for Africa.

Record 10,500 tons of seed to be delivered for April planting season

In a concerted push to revive agriculture and avert hunger in Ebola-hit countries, the World Bank Group has mobilized up to $15 million in emergency financing to provide a record 10,500 tons of maize and rice seed to over 200,000 farmers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in time for the April planting season.

More than one million people could go hungry unless they...

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declares a state of emergency as the country grapples with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

Sierra Leone's president declares a public health emergency to curb the deadly Ebola outbreak and order epicentres of the disease to be quarantined.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf lifts the state of emergency imposed to control a deadly Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the country.

Guinea declares a national health emergency as it battles to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed more than 1,000 people.

Freetown, Sunday. Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war cost an estimated $15 billion, the World Bank’s deputy Vice-President, Mr Makhtar Diop, said in Freetown.