The Red Cross has confirmed that more than $5m (£3.8m) of aid money was lost to fraud and corruption during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Auditors found overpriced supplies, salaries for non-existent aid workers and fake customs bills. As Ebola spread across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the Red Cross Federation in Geneva was dispersing cash donations to the national Red Cross societies in each of those countries – altogether a sum of about $100m. The Red Cross told the BBC’s Imogen Foulkes in Geneva that it is deeply sorry for the losses. The organisation adds that it has introduced stricter financial rules, and promised to hold any Red Cross staff involved to account.

Source: GNN Liberia November 03, 2017 16:07 UTC