Sierra Leone: Ebola Cuts Sierra Leone Growth to Three-Year Low

Sep 10, 2014 | Yahoo News
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Freetown (AFP) - Sierra Leone said Wednesday the Ebola crisis had devastated the economy, with growth projections pared back to single digits for the first time since the country's mining boom started in 2011.Finance Minister Kaifala Marah told reporters in the capital Freetown that growth had slowed to an annual rate of seven percent since the country registered its first cases in May.