On Ebola "what are African governments doing for themselves?"

From Emergent Africa Sun Oct 19 2014, 17:21:00

The outsourcing of 'everything' is all the more apparent. Charles Onyango-Obbo writing in the Mail & Guardian

image courtesy of the AFP

What is striking about this latest episode of Ebola is how little the continent has done, and how it exposed the shambolic state of health care in Africa. There was only major African Union meeting on the Ebola crisis, and besides offering a few doctors, it hardly came up with a penny to help fight the virus.

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