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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›
TOGOLESE PROTESTERS CONTINUE TO DEMAND PRESIDENT'S RESIGNATION
ACROSS AFRICA In this week's edition protests in Togo continue and hundreds are forced to cross the border into Ghana the Triplets Ghetto Kids show u..... 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›
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›
PLA NAVY, ON HUMANITARIAN MISSION, VISITS SIERRA LEONE[1]
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›
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AT LEAST 300 DEAD IN SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDES AND FLOODING[1]
Sierra Leone's national broadcaster announced late Monday that the death toll had risen above 300... READ MORE›
HUNDREDS FEARED DEAD IN MUDSLIDE NEAR FREETOWN
Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, officials and witnesses say... 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›
AFRICAN LEADERS HEAD TO THE GAMBIA FOR MEDIATION TALKS
West African heads of state to arrive in Banjul to ask President Jammeh to step down, according to Senegalese official... READ MORE›
Abby Haglage in the Daily Beast says Dr Spencer's case could affect Ebola patients worldwide - by deterring would-be volunteers from travelling to West Africa to help... READ MORE›
CANADA VISA BAN HITS WEST AFRICA STATES
Ebola crisis canada visa ban hits west africa states... 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›
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 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›
GAMBIA CRISIS INTENSIFIES BEFORE THURSDAY'S PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
Yahya Jammeh, president of the West African nation, has been in power since he staged a coup 22 years ago... READ MORE›
TELEGRAPH INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI OF NIGERIA
How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across west Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram?... READ MORE›
ADAMA BARROW HEADS TO MALI FOR GAMBIA CRISIS TALKS
Winner of presidential vote heads to Bamako as last-ditch regional attempts to persuade Yahya Jammeh to step down fail... 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›
OBAMAS POWER AFRICA PROJECT IS OFF TO A SPUTTERING START
Nigerian officials say that while they welcome the Power Africa initiative, they have only had conversations about potential projects... READ MORE›
THE GAMBIA'S PRESIDENT URGED TO ACCEPT DEFEAT BY NEW GOVERNMENT
The gambia life goes on in banjul as yahya jammeh clings to power... 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›
FROM NIGERIA TO BURMAS JUNGLE
A few months before he was shot as an enemy soldier in its sweltering jungles 16-year-old Nigerian Isaac Fadoyebo had never even heard of Burma... 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›
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›
SIERRA LEONE VILLAGERS SUE MINING COMPANY IN LONDON HIGH COURT
In written evidence gathered by Leigh Day, she said there were three AML men with the police, including its community relations officer, Yallan Atkins Koroma... READ MORE›
MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF AID MONEY IS AT RISK OF FALLING INTO CRIMINAL HANDS, WARN MPS
PIDG operates around the world, in countries including Ivory Coast, the Democratic of Congo and Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS
WHO commends the government and people of Sierra Leone for the significant achievement of ending this Ebola outbreak, he said... READ MORE›
One volunteer, Dr Geraldine O'Hara, an infectious diseases specialist from Huddersfield, has recorded a series of audio diaries while she is in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
EBOLA GENETIC CODE ANALYSED TO SHOW EVOLUTION OF WORST EVER OUTBREAK
In Freetown, Sierra Leone, the virus mutated as it spread, before being re-imported back into Guinea as a new strain that tore across the country... READ MORE›