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Follow Britain’s example on Ebola, David Cameron tells world leaders
UN chief Ban Ki-moon berates international community for contributing only $100,000 into his $1bn global fighting fund
*Healthcare workers wear protective gear before entering into an Ebola treatment centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photograph: Michael Duff/AP
Nicholas Watt*and*Lizzy Davies*in Milan
Friday 17 October 2014*05.22*EDT
Britain has called on world leaders to “wake up” to the crisis posed by the*Ebola*outbreak and to follow the example of the UK, US and France in providing medical and financial support to countries in West Africa.
As the UN secretary general,*Ban Ki-moon, chided the international community for paying just $100,000 into his $1bn trust fund to fight Ebola, David Cameron called on other countries to “act in a similar way” to Britain, the US and France.
The UK prime minister’s intervention is designed to step up pressure on other EU leaders to agree to increase their contributions to fighting Ebola at an EU summit in Brussels next week. It is felt that Germany could make a greater contribution of cash and medical resources while France has further to go in Guinea to match Britain’s efforts in Sierra Leone.
The criticism from Britain came after*Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, said he was “bitterly disappointed” with the response of the international community, which would have been different if the crisis had erupted in the west. Annan told BBC Newsnight: “If the crisis had hit some other region it probably would have been handled very differently. In fact, when you look at the evolution of the crisis, the international community really woke up when the disease got to America and Europe.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...on-ban-ki-moon
UN chief Ban Ki-moon berates international community for contributing only $100,000 into his $1bn global fighting fund
*Healthcare workers wear protective gear before entering into an Ebola treatment centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photograph: Michael Duff/AP
Nicholas Watt*and*Lizzy Davies*in Milan
Friday 17 October 2014*05.22*EDT
Britain has called on world leaders to “wake up” to the crisis posed by the*Ebola*outbreak and to follow the example of the UK, US and France in providing medical and financial support to countries in West Africa.
As the UN secretary general,*Ban Ki-moon, chided the international community for paying just $100,000 into his $1bn trust fund to fight Ebola, David Cameron called on other countries to “act in a similar way” to Britain, the US and France.
The UK prime minister’s intervention is designed to step up pressure on other EU leaders to agree to increase their contributions to fighting Ebola at an EU summit in Brussels next week. It is felt that Germany could make a greater contribution of cash and medical resources while France has further to go in Guinea to match Britain’s efforts in Sierra Leone.
The criticism from Britain came after*Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, said he was “bitterly disappointed” with the response of the international community, which would have been different if the crisis had erupted in the west. Annan told BBC Newsnight: “If the crisis had hit some other region it probably would have been handled very differently. In fact, when you look at the evolution of the crisis, the international community really woke up when the disease got to America and Europe.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...on-ban-ki-moon
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