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Sierra Leone said it was banning any public Christmas celebrations as the spiralling caseload of Ebola infections continues to spread alarm.

• 13 декабря 2014, 15:26

Don't pray too close to each other, observe strict hygiene rules and don't shake the imam's hand. For Muslims in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, this was an Eid festival.

• 05 октября 2014, 13:38

Actor Idris Elba joined the United Nations campaign to ramp up the response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

• 26 сентября 2014, 15:01

Sierra Leone has ordered the quarantine "with immediate effect" of three districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms -- affecting more than one million people.

• 25 сентября 2014, 14:58

Sierra Leone was preparing for an unprecedented three-day nationwide shutdown to contain the deadly spread of the Ebola virus.

• 19 сентября 2014, 15:23

Sierra Leone announced plans to visit every home in the country of six million to track down people with Ebola and remove dead bodies.

• 09 сентября 2014, 13:36

The US Peace Corps announced it was pulling hundreds of volunteers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone due to growing concerns over the spread of the deadly Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa.

• 02 августа 2014, 12:09

Three men and a young girl died in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, after torrential rains on Sunday dislodged a huge boulder which then crashed into a house, doctors said.

• 06 мая 2014, 10:50

Sierra Leoneans voted Saturday in general elections as the west African country continues to recover from a brutal civil war while beginning to reap the benefits of a mining boom.

• 18 ноября 2012, 11:58

Sierra Leoneans vote on Saturday in the country's third election since the end of a brutal civil war, a high-stakes poll billed as a litmus test of the mineral-rich nation's democratic credentials.

• 16 ноября 2012, 13:52