As Ebola continues its trail of devastation in West Africa, with a death toll of more than 3,000 people, the foreign ministers of Sierra Leone and Liberia have called on the international community to do more to help.<br /><br />According to the UN, one billion US dollars is needed to tackle the outbreak but so far just 350 million dollars has been pledged.<br /><br />The Liberian foreign minister, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, told the UN they can’t keep up.<br /><br />“Ebola has confounded all of us. It has sprinted faster than our collective efforts. Sadly, as Ebola widens its deadly circumference, it is creating a trail of traumatised orphans across the country, which includes that 10-year-old kid from Baka Du, Lofa County, who is the last person standing in a family of 12.”<br /><br />Sierra Leone’s minister asked for faster deployments of staff, medicines and equipment.<br /><br />The World Health Organization warns the infection rate could reach 20,000 by November. The death rate in those infected is over 50 percent.
