Liberia: Liberia Signs 'Transformational' Deal to Stem Deforestation

Sep 23, 2014 | Matt McGrath, BBC News
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Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid.

Norway will pay the impoverished West African country $150m (£91.4m) to stop deforestation by 2020.

There have been fears that the Ebola crisis would see increased logging in a country desperate for cash.