(MENAFN- AFP) The worst-ever Ebola epidemic could cut economic output in four west African countries by between 1 percent and 1.5 percent of gross economic product, the African Development Bank said Tuesday.
Economic output in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - which have been worst-hit by the crisis - along with neighbouring Ivory Coast are expected to be hit by the crisis, with food production in Liberia already at risk, president Donald Kaberuka told a news conference.
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