{"id":5383,"date":"2014-10-02T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2014-10-02T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:09:39","slug":"ebola-could-cause-economic-collapse-guineas-president-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/ebola-could-cause-economic-collapse-guineas-president-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Could Cause \u2018Economic Collapse\u2019 Guinea\u2019s President Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea has been more successful in containing the Ebola epidemic than its immediate neighbors in West Africa, but the loss of revenue caused by the crisis has left the country in dire financial straits, President Alpha Cond\u00e9 said after concluding a round of meetings at the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cond\u00e9 said Guinea would need about $100 million until December to cover its budget gap, which will grow if Ebola is not tackled by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe slowing down of our economies due to Ebola requires that most of our countries get some budgetary support \u2026 it\u2019s going to be crucial that we get that support so our economies don\u2019t completely collapse,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guinea News\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/frontiers\/2014\/10\/01\/ebola-could-cause-economic-collapse-guineas-president-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea has been more successful in containing the Ebola epidemic than its immediate neighbors in West Africa, but the loss of revenue caused by the crisis has left the country in dire financial straits, President Alpha Cond\u00e9 said after concluding a round of meetings at the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Cond\u00e9 said Guinea would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,1111,1119,4715,1124,257,3591,254,4692],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-news","tag-president-alpha-conde","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}