Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily here on the BBC World Service.

Today, I'm in Sierra Leone. As the country prepares for elections, the legacy of Ebola still hangs over the economy.

After fighting the beast, legend you fire to Ebola as a beast. After killing the beast, you need some care, you know.

You need some care.

And that is lacking here for us.

So how are ordinary people feeling?

Every day price rise up with no control, really.

I'm pleading to the government, really, for the government to help Sierra Leone's that are doing business.

That's all to come here on Business Daily from the BBC.

A children's cancer ward in Sierra Leone's capital free town.

In this terribly poor country, one of the poorest in sub-Saharan Africa,

the children here are in one sense actually fortunate.

The care they're getting is provided for free,

and the dedicated team of specialists who work here are doing everything they can

to give these very sick

children a fighting chance.

Mary Amakamara sits with her three-year-old daughter, Mabinti, who's been diagnosed

with a rare form of liver cancer.

The senior doctor, Nelly Bell, translates her words.

So you can stay here with your child while she's being treated?

Yeah, no problem.

I gave a person you take me to care here before you don't take him and then you begin. She said yes, no problem. She's able to take care of her before she don't take my name and then you begin.

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