Sierra Leone loses track of $3.3m in Ebola funds: audit

Sierra Leone has been criticised in a report presented to its parliament on Friday showing ministers lost track of more than $3 million in internal emergency funds to fight the Ebola virus. There was no paperwork to support 14 billion leones ($3.3 million, 2.8 million euros) of contracts, while 11 billion leones had incomplete documentation, the country’s Auditor-General Laura Taylor-Pearce said in the report. The country of six million has seen almost 11,000 Ebola cases and 3,363 deaths during the epidemic which has raged in West Africa for more than a year.

[There were] lapses in the financial management system in Sierra Leone and these have ultimately resulted in the loss of funds and a reduction in the quality of service delivery in the health sector.

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