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The article focuses on women on the front lines of the Ebola crisis in Africa. It cites Esther Kine who collected and buried the bodies of the victims epidemic. The epidemic is the worst in history and it started in Guinea in December 2013 before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Tina Davies, formerly the coordinator for Ebola survivors at Sierra Leone's Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs, notes that Ebola touched the lives of tens of thousands of Sierra Leoneans.

The article discusses end of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, that allowed African countries to sell goods duty-free to the U.S., in Lesotho. Topics discussed include support of the trade deal to women in Lesotho according to the Lesotho Textile Exporters Association, comments from Joshua Setipa, Lesotho's minister of trade and industry, on loss of income due to disappearance of textile industry and trade unionist Solong Senohe, on it.