VILLAGERS STILL WAITING FOR SHARE OF $6.5M DIAMOND

The villagers who dug up Sierra Leone's 6.5m peace diamond say they are still waiting for a share of the sale... READ MORE›

ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE IN EGYPT - FRANCE 24

Also, how an international outcry forced the Sierra Leone government to reverse its ban on pregnant teenagers receiving an education... READ MORE›

CAN THIS EX-FOOTBALLER FULFIL LIBERIANS DREAMS?

The ex-footballer George Weah has been voted in as the president of Liberia. But will he be equal to the country's many challenges, asks Umaru Fofana... READ MORE›

'HE IS KING GEORGE': SOCCER STAR GEORGE WEAH WINS LIBERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

'He is King George' Soccer star George Weah wins Liberian presidential election... READ MORE›

GEORGE WEAH, FORMER WORLD FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR, SET TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA

The EU's chief observer, Maria Arena, congratulated the candidates and the Liberian people on a peaceful vote that generally respected constitutional rules ... READ MORE›

FORMER WORLD FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR GEORGE WEAH ELECTED LIBERIAN PRESIDENT

George Weah, former world footballer of the year, elected president of Liberia... READ MORE›

GEORGE WEAH SET TO WIN LIBERIA PRESIDENCY

Mr Weah, 51, will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, in Liberia's first democratic handover since 1944... READ MORE›

LIBERIA SET TO LEARN RESULT OF LANDMARK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Whoever wins will succeed the continent's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of Africa's oldest republic in 2006... READ MORE›

COUNTING UNDER WAY IN LIBERIA PRESIDENTIAL RUN-OFF

There has been no major incident to report of a technical nature and the voting was peaceful, noted electoral commission chief Francis Korkoya... READ MORE›

EBOLA: SURVIVORS FACE HEALTH COMPLICATIONS AMID RED CROSS SCANDAL

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Barely two years after West African nations defeated a deadly Ebola scourge, they are confronting a new epidemic corruption... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE PEACE DIAMOND NETS $6.5 MILLION IN AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR WEST AFRICAN NATION

The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, though the 113 million sector is plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›

ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST DIAMONDS FETCHES $6.5 MILLION TO DEAL WITH SMUGGLERS IN THE WEST AFRICAN NATION

The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, but the multi-million dollar sector is still plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›

GIANT 'PEACE DIAMOND' SELLS FOR $6.5M

A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for 6.5m ?4.8m ... READ MORE›

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RED CROSS ADMITS EBOLA CASH LOST TO FRAUD

An investigation by Red Cross auditors has revealed that in Liberia 2.7m disappeared in fraudulently overpriced supplies, or in salaries for non-existent aid workers... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE APPEALS FOR URGENT HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS

Paolo Conteh, the interior minister, told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remained missing... READ MORE›

Anyone arriving from affected West African countries without having had confirmed contact with Ebola victims will be subject to monitoring by public health officials... READ MORE›

EBOLA DRUG CLINICAL TRIALS TO START

Trials One trial involves using the blood of recovered Ebola patients to treat sick people in the Guinean capital Conakry... READ MORE›

CANADA VISA BAN HITS WEST AFRICA STATES

Ebola crisis canada visa ban hits west africa states... READ MORE›

OBAMA DEMANDS $6BN FOR EBOLA FIGHT

However, privately, UN officials say the country that currently has the worst Ebola hotspots, Sierra Leone, is not coping at all... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS

In Sierra Leone, the hardest hit of any nation during the Ebola outbreak, nearly 4,000 people died from the disease altogether 14,000 were infected... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF DISEASE

Dr Oliver Johnson, from the King's Sierra Leone partnership, worked at an Ebola clinic in Freetown, and has strong links with medical professionals there... READ MORE›

NEW CASE EMERGES IN SIERRA LEONE

Health officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the West Africa outbreak over... READ MORE›

WHO CRISIS TEAM HOLDS EBOLA TALKS

Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE WHY JOAN COLLINS CHOSE TO CONFIDE IN BRAVE MISS WORLD FILMMAKER LINOR ABARGIL ABOUT TEENAGE RAPE TRAUMA

But he added that there were still, by some estimates, 1,000 to 2,000 new Ebola cases a week -- the bulk of those now in Guinea and Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARES EBOLA LOCKDOWN

Sierra Leone has the highest number of Ebola cases in West Africa, with more than 9,000 cases and more than 2,400 deaths since the start of the outbreak... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE IS FREE OF EBOLA, 18 MONTHS AND 11,000 DEATHS AFTER OUTBREAK

NAIROBI -- About a year and a half after it emerged, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has officially ended... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE EBOLA NURSES ON STRIKE

The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

AFRICA SETS UP $28.5M CRISIS FUND

Of the West African countries hit by the 11-month outbreak, Liberia has seen the most deaths... READ MORE›

NEW EBOLA CASE IS DISCOVERED IN LIBERIA

The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free on May 9 a landmark moment in the country which has suffered more deaths from the epidemic than any other... READ MORE›

GENOME STUDIES SHOW HOW EBOLA SPREAD INITIALLY

It has continued to be among the versions of the virus propagating in Guinea and later in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

EBOLA 'STABLE' IN GUINEA - WHO

Refused entry Guinea has not been as badly hit by Ebola as neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia... READ MORE›

RE-EMERGENCE OF EBOLA IN LIBERIA REMAINS A MYSTERY

The six new infections in Liberia since June 21 include two deaths... READ MORE›

LIBERIA SET TO VOTE IN POLL TO CHOOSE ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF SUCCESSOR

Liberians are set to go to the polls to choose a successor to Africa's first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf... READ MORE›

FINAL TEST RESULTS CONFIRM EBOLA VACCINE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

Scientists have struggled to develop an Ebola vaccine over the years, and this is the first one proven to work... READ MORE›

Guinea reported its lowest weekly total of new confirmed Ebola virus disease cases since the week ending 17 August 2014, WHO said... READ MORE›

GOVERNMENT 'TO MATCH ?5M EBOLA CASH'

Mr Saeed also warned of other risks in West Africa as health workers focus on fighting Ebola... READ MORE›

'I AM LIBERIAN, NOT A VIRUS'

She says We are Liberians, Sierra Leoneans, Guineans and Nigerians... READ MORE›

VICTORY AS GUINEA IS DEEMED FREE OF EBOLA

Of all the countries where Ebola spread, the virus proved hardest to eradicate from Guinea, experts said... READ MORE›

DOG SAVES CHILDREN S LIVES DURING ROAD RAGE SHOOTING

As for meeting the United Nations' interim treatment goal, Guinea and Liberia are believed to be treating more than 70 percent of known Ebola patients... READ MORE›

SURGEON WITH EBOLA ON FLIGHT TO U.S. FOR CARE

Martin Salia poses for a photo at the United Methodist Church's Kissy Hospital outside Freetown, Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

WHO DECLARES GUINEA FREE OF EBOLA

Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola in November, but new cases have emerged in Liberia, which had been declared Ebola-free in September... READ MORE›

EBOLA CASES IN 3 FAMILY MEMBERS CONFIRMED IN LIBERIA

Declared Sierra Leone free of Ebola transmissions two weeks ago and Guinea released its last known patient from a treatment unit on Monday... READ MORE›

WAR AGAINST EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA REMAINS A TOUGH FIGHT

A healthcare worker washes his hands and boots at an Ebola treatment center in the Hastings area of Freetown, Sierra Leone... READ MORE›