Month: February 2015

By Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) – Sierra Leone could see growth rebound to double digits over the next 3-5 years as it emerges from the Ebola crisis and plans to tap its diaspora to raise funds for development, its foreign minister said. The west African country's economy was ravaged by the recent year-long outbreak of the Ebola virus that killed more than 9,000 people across Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. "At the moment because of Ebola, we are back in the single digits, but we will get back up again … we will get back into the double digits," Foreign Minister Samura Kamara told Reuters on the sidelines of an investor meeting in London. Before the Ebola outbreak, the government forecast that 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) would grow by 11.5 percent.

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By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Some of those most guilty of violence and discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people in Asia are their families, which must instead play a key role in improving LGBTI rights, activists from the region said. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) in Asia face the threat of violence and widespread discrimination – denied education and jobs, and disowned by their families in societies that are often patriarchal and religious, the activists said ahead of a three-day meeting on LGBT health and human rights in Asia. “The family is one of the main perpetrators of violence and discrimination. If LGBT people suffer violence at the hands of family members, there are few places they can turn to in countries where traumatic conversion and religious therapies are common, Cristobal said.
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