China donates food items worth $2 million to Sierra Leone through WFP (Linked to Record ID#45060, #64640)

In September 2014, according to All Africa, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced his government's plan to donate food items worth $2 million as a response to the ongoing Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. On the same occasion, China also donated $1 million aid in cash to Sierra Leone for filling the fiscal gap (#44017).

The food items, including rice, corn, soya beans and yellow split peas, were donated through the World Food Program (WFP).

According to UN OCHA financial tracking system, China split $6 million USD equally to aid Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through the World Food Program to support food security in light of the Ebola virus (see projects #45060 and #64640 for the donations to Liberia and Guinea). This is part of the aid package from China to three West African countries in that year in response to Ebola (#36373).

On October 8, 2014, the Chinese embassy in Sierra Leone recorded that the Chinese Ambassador Zhao Yanbo and the Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, Samura Kamara signed the certificate to hand over the items.

On December 29, 2014, an article from the Chinese embassy website indicates that the food aid was transferred from WFP to the Sierra Leonean government. The WFP reported that the project was being implemented in Sierra Leone as of March 2015.