During the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the government of Guinea appeared to lag behind in responding to the outbreak, routinely downplaying the severity of the outbreak and heavily criticizing international organizations for sensationalizing it. Given its entrenched poverty, lack of infrastructure, and inadequate healthcare system, why would the government downplay the epidemic and not seek a full international response until the epidemic reached critical levels that required a global response? Based on declassified documents from the US government, this research contends that Guinea's government downplayed the epidemic in an attempt to prevent investors’ perceptions that Guinea was unsafe for substantial investments that the government had been pursuing in the iron-ore production and export industry. However, those investments also proved to be tied to an extensive history of corruption in Guinea's mining industries linked to the leader's extraversion policies designed to consolidate and to maintain power domestically.

在2014-2016年西非埃博拉疫情爆发期间，几内亚政府在应对疫情方面似乎落在后面，通常低估了疫情的严重性，并严厉批评了国际组织引起轰动的行为。鉴于其根深蒂固的贫困，缺乏基础设施以及医疗体系不足，为什么政府要轻视这种流行病，而在流行病达到需要全球应对的临界水平之前，不寻求全面的国际对策？根据美国政府解密的文件，该研究认为几内亚政府轻描淡写了这种流行病，以防止投资者认为几内亚对于政府一直在铁矿石生产和出口行业进行的大量投资是不安全的。然而，