UN General Assembly
2014

12 per cent decline in our economy in 2015. As a result of the slowdown in economic activities, our revenue generation capacity has been seriously undermined, thereby constricting our ability to provide basic social services and to continue to fund key development projects. The suspension of flights as well as the travel and other restrictions and sanctions imposed on Liberia and other affected countries despite expert advice to the contrary from the World Health Organization and others, have not only undermined the humanitarian efforts aimed at quickly containing the disease, but have also aggravated the adverse economic effects of the Ebola crisis. As destructive as the Liberian civil conflict was, at least our people knew the warring factions and the front lines. With Ebola, the enemy is more insidious, and there are no clear-cut front lines, because someone’s child, someone’s husband or someone’s workmate could actually be the enemy and in the front line at the same time. That difficult feature of the disease, coupled with a host of other challenges, has occasioned its rapid