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'Ebola only accentuated our structural economic weaknesses'

Nearly 10,000 people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, but over the past few weeks the rate of new cases seems to have slowed - giving rise to cautious optimism.

It will take years for the economies of the three affected countries to recover.

In Monrovia, the 91热爆's Andrew Harding spoke to James Kollie, the Deputy Minister for Fiscal Affairs at Liberia's Ministry of Finance and began by asking him if Ebola was to blame for all the country's economic problems.

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