Live Q&A: where should Sierra Leone's post-Ebola economic recovery start?

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"We were just beginning to develop a good environment after the war shattered us - coming to integrate society, develop business and infrastructure - and now Ebola has taken us back again," Samura Kamara, foreign minister of Sierra Leone, told the Financial Times in February.

Four months later, the Ebola crisis is slowly abating in Sierra Leone, but with new people still being diagnosed in recent weeks preventing an all-clear diagnosis, the country is struggling to attract businesses once keen to invest in a country rich in diamonds, minerals and fertile land. Those that invest are forced to charter cargo planes to fly in equipment in the absence of usual carriers. Then there's the report by Sierra Leone's auditor general that raises concerns about corruption. It emerged that the country failed to account fully for nearly a third of the $20m (130m) it received to fight Ebola in 2014.