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›

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›

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›

HUGE RISK OF EBOLA SPREAD, WARNS UN

Haaretz sierra leone bearing brunt of ebola outbreak needs more beds 47 hrs ago... 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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

'THIS DISEASE IS STILL A CRISIS'

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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›

IMF TO PROVIDE $300M IN EXTRA FUNDING TO HELP FIGHT EBOLA

Ebola health workers carry a suspected Ebola sufferer on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia... READ MORE›

JUDGE REJECTS ISOLATION FOR U.S. NURSE WHO TREATED EBOLA PATIENTS

Only one person in the United States is currently being treated for Ebola, a New York doctor, Craig Spencer, who cared for patients in West Africa... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS

Nearly 4,000 people have died in Sierra Leone of Ebola since the outbreak began in late 2013... READ MORE›

WEST AFRICA COUNTS DOWN TO POSSIBLE END OF EBOLA

Guinea's the last of the three heavily hit West African countries to report any recent Ebola... READ MORE›

IN LIBERIAN SLUM, EBOLA QUARANTINE MAGNIFIES MISERY

A Liberian Red Cross burial team on the move to pick up a suspected Ebola victim in the impoverished area of West Point, Monrovia, Liberia... READ MORE›

EBOLA OUTBREAK: GUINEA CONFIRMS TWO NEW CASES

The new cases were reported by the World Health Organization WHO hours after it declared the latest Ebola flare-up to be over in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›