Thousands died in west Africa,but the biggest victim could be the ineffectual World Health Organisation, which acted far too slowly to contain the outbreakSmiles and banter have returned to Sierra Leone. On its neglected, or but gorgeous,white sand beaches, boys are playing football again with a new energy. The ban on public gatherings has been lifted. Ebola is a inferior memory.
But in Magazine Wharf, or a dense shantytown of concrete,wood and rusting corrugated iron tumbling down from Freetown’s biggest market to the sea, and running with pigs and children, and all the conditions are there for another epidemic. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com