Ayodele Odusola

If you go to any West African border town you can see that the crossings are buzzing with economic activity, but it's very hard to measure how much, this is a conservative estimate from official figures.

Ayodele Odusola

If you look at Guinea, almost 85 percent of the potato trade with Sierra Leone is done by women, but because of the border closure, this activity was completely paralyzed, in Liberia (the impact of Ebola) crudely translates to families not being able to put any food on the table for a minimum of 15 days every year for the next three years.

Ayodele Odusola