“Save My Country;” President Sirleaf Cries Out As Ebola Takes Its Toll On Liberia

Liberia’s President, Johnson Sirleaf has made a passionate appeal to the international community to come to the rescue of the West African Country, heavily ravaged by the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.

Sirleaf made the appeal in an open letter read on the BBC World Service.

“We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola,' President Johnson Sirleaf said in an open letter read on the BBC World Service.

“It is the duty of all of us, as global citizens, to send a message that we will not leave millions of West Africans to fend for themselves against an enemy that they do not know, and against whom they have little defence.”

She said Liberia and two other nations of Guinea a Sierra Leone were already weakened by the virus.

“There is no coincidence Ebola has taken hold in three fragile states - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - all battling to overcome the effects of interconnected wars,” the leader said.

“Ebola is not just a health crisis - across West Africa, a generation of young people risk being lost to an economic catastrophe,” she said

“The time for talking or theorizing is over. Only concerted action will save my country, and our neighbours, from experiencing another national tragedy.”

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization, WHO today declared Nigeria, free of Ebola, which brings to two countries that have been declared free from the virus. The United Nations body had last week declared Senegal free of the virus that has killed more than 4,000 people already.