Thirty years ago, no one would have been killed, says Thorsten Kallnischkies, a geologist seconded to the United Nations Development Programme UNDP office in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
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›
Ben Arnold 7.30pm, Channel 4 August saw flooding and landslides devastate Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
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›
President Koroma entering the Chinese Ark Peace Hospital ship Sierra Leone's Preside... READ MORE›
The vessel arrived on Tuesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital and largest city, which is a major port on the Atlantic Ocean... READ MORE›
In the aftermath of the mudslide, the Sierra Leone community of Adelaide met twice... READ MORE›
Also, a month after a deadly mudslide rocked Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, killing at least 500 people, the victims of the disaster are being relocated... READ MORE›
In Iran, at least 12 people were killed by flash floods that started on August 14, the Iranian Red Crescent reported... READ MORE›
We all remember reading or hearing about the unbelievable tragedies that the people of Sierra Leone suffered at the hands of the Ebola epidemic... READ MORE›
Below are some photos from Sierra Leone and South Asia that give a sense of the enormity of the catastrophes there... READ MORE›
More than 300 people have been killed in mudslides and flooding near Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown... READ MORE›
READ MORE Sierra Leone mudslide What, where and why?... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Paolo Conteh told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remain unaccounted for... READ MORE›
The burials involved people who had already been identified or whose bodies were badly decomposed, Freetown's chief pathologist Dr Simeon Owizz Koroma said... READ MORE›
Sierra Leonean journalist and Freetown resident Umaru Fofana reflects on the disaster... READ MORE›
Sierra Leone's national broadcaster announced late Monday that the death toll had risen above 300... READ MORE›
Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, officials and witnesses say... READ MORE›
Associated Press After a night of torrential rain, entire hillsides have collapsed into fast-moving mud in and around Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, on Monday... READ MORE›
Paolo Conteh, the interior minister, told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remained missing... READ MORE›
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Sierra Leone entered a week-long mourning period for the victims of flooding that killed more than 300 people, with fears rising for at least 600 missing people... 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›
An estimated 400 people who have died so far, according to Sinneh Kamara, assistant officer at Sierra Leone's Connaught hospital, which is serving as the city's morgue... READ MORE›
My husband woke me up as the water was filling the house... READ MORE›
Ebola crisis canada visa ban hits west africa states... READ MORE›
However, privately, UN officials say the country that currently has the worst Ebola hotspots, Sierra Leone, is not coping at all... READ MORE›
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›
More than 100,000 people watched the fireworks display in London and other UK cities, amid heightened security... READ MORE›
As refugees, they are at risk of higher levels of domestic violence at home and sexual harassment when they step out... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›
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›
Authorities in Sierra Leone warned on Thursday of danger from more mudslides as a large crack has opened on a mountainside in the capital Freetown... READ MORE›
NAIROBI -- About a year and a half after it emerged, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has officially ended... READ MORE›
The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
Of the West African countries hit by the 11-month outbreak, Liberia has seen the most deaths... READ MORE›
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›
The country of six million has had almost 11,000 Ebola cases and 3,363 deaths during the epidemic, which has raged in West Africa for nearly a year... READ MORE›
How geography, climate change and politics contributed to Sierra Leone's latest disaster... READ MORE›
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