World leaders are meeting in Brussels the capital of Belgium for an international conference on Ebola.
The conference intends to take stock of the fight against Ebola, discuss further actions and the recovery process.
The conference will be attended by leaders and delegates from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia as well as Togo the three countries worst hit by Ebola. UN and AU representatives will also be in attendance.
Meanwhile the World Bank has pledged to give Sierra Leone a package of 187 million dollars as aid to revive its economy. This follows a massive Ebola outbreak that severely affected the countries economy.
The UN says that the struggle to contain the epidemic was reaching a “second phase”. However it warned countries not to become complacent as the was still far from being won.
Around 600 delegates will be in attendance on Tuesday to discuss the response to the outbreak.
World leaders, including the presidents of all three worst-hit nations, will talk about how best to rebuild the economies after the epidemic has been stopped and what the response should be in the long term.
The Ebola outbreak has killed 9,714 people in West Africa since it began in 2014, with 23,913 confirmed cases.
