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›

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›

IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 YEARS TO CLOSE THE WORKPLACE EQUALITY GAP. HERE'S WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE.

It may take women around the world more than two centuries to achieve workplace equality, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum... READ MORE›

CHINA IS A DEPENDABLE FRIEND TO SIERRA LEONE, SAYS PRESIDENT KOROMA

President Koroma entering the Chinese Ark Peace Hospital ship Sierra Leone's Preside... READ MORE›

NO 'BIG' VACATIONS, NO SALARY AS PRESIDENT

As for the president's 400,000-a-year pay, the New York businessman said No, I'm not going to take the salary... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP IS ABOUT TO LEARN THE NATION'S 'DEEP SECRETS'

For particularly sensitive operations, the president has to see only that the Gang of Eight is informed... READ MORE›

ONCE TIME'S 'PERSON OF THE YEAR,' AN EBOLA FIGHTER DIES IN CHILDBIRTH DUE TO STIGMA OF VIRUS

More than 11,000 people died in the Ebola outbreak, although 17,000 who contracted the virus survived... READ MORE›

TURKEY'S PRESIDENT MOVES INTO WORLD'S BIGGEST PALACE COSTING ?384 MILLION

Mr Erdogan served as prime minister for 11 years before ascending to the presidency... READ MORE›

MEXICAN PRESIDENTS TIES TO CONTRACTOR RAISE QUESTIONS

When Mr. Pena Nieto ran for president, one of Mr. Hinojosa's companies ferried him around in a helicopter free, the Mexican news media reported... 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›

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›

MR. OBAMA, YOUR IRAN DEAL WILL FALL APART

If President Obama doesn't treat the Iran agreement with more respect all his arguments today are beside the point... 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›

CZECH PRESIDENT SHOCKS NATIONS IN EXPLETIVE-FILLED INTERVIEW

In its defence, Czech Radio has argued as the interview was live it could not be held responsible for the president's language... READ MORE›

THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH WITH EBOLA

At this point, considering the contact she had with someone with Ebola, health workers said she is most likely very sick, perhaps even dead... 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›

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›

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESIDENT TIM WOLFE'S VERY TELLING RESIGNATION SPEECH

I did hear his reference to the Psalm and thought he was talking about the university's pain and its struggle... 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›

ANGER IN ROMANIA AS PRESIDENT BLOCKS FEMALE MUSLIM AS PM NOMINEE

Romania was tipped to have its first female and first Muslim prime minister, until the country's president on Tuesday rejected the Social Democrat Party's nomination... READ MORE›

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›

VACCINE SUCCESS HOLDS HOPE FOR END TO DEADLY SCOURGE OF EBOLA

That left the study in Guinea, where Ebola is still infecting new victims, as the only real hope for demonstrating the efficacy of a vaccine... 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›

VOICES FROM BURUNDI SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES

Ms. Nivyabandi also fled Burundi in 1993, when civil war erupted after soldiers from the country's Tutsi minority assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority... READ MORE›

WORLD AIDS DAY CUT GAY BLOOD BAN TO THREE MONTHS

But as Mr. Conde played down the outbreak, Ebola was steadily entrenching itself in the Guinean forest villages where it surfaced nearly a year ago... READ MORE›

TOYOTA DEFENDS DIVERSITY HIRING AFTER AMERICAN IS ARRESTED

Toyota spoke up in support of the executive Julie Hamp on Friday a day after she was taken into custody by the Japanese police... READ MORE›

BURUNDI HOLDS ELECTIONS AFTER NIGHT OF GUNFIRE

At a half-dozen polling stations, only a trickle of people were seen voting, pressing an ink-stained thumb on a ballot... READ MORE›

AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA

Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›

BARACK OBAMA INTERVIEWS SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Us president interviews world renowned british naturalist about climate change... 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›