Sierra Leone

Legislators from the two main political parties threw furniture at one another during a debate on electoral reform in Freetown, the country's capital.

Sierra Leone's health minister, Dr. Austin Demby, said that the vaccine doses the country received in March might go to waste because some residents believe COVID-19 is not as bad as the Ebola virus outbreak a few years ago.

The pandemic threatens us all, but it is devastating for the 1.7 billion women and girls who live in rural areas around the world and help produce much of the world's food.

Few cities face the kind of challenges that Freetown faces.

Auctioneers have described the Peace Diamond as the 14th largest in the world

More than 300 people have died after a hillside collapsed, engulfing homes and burying people alive.

Part of a hill on the outskirts of the capital city of Freetown collapsed, taking unsafe housing with it.

The man who discovered the diamond, a Christian pastor, says it is worth $50 million.

Just 3 percent of infected persons caused 61 percent of cases of Ebola.

Sierra Leone's recovery after Ebola is testament to the power of the private sector in state-building.

Cafferkey was infected while working at a Sierra Leone treatment centre in 2014.

The women on Ebola outbreak burial crews in Africa hurled themselves into the path of the virus when nearly everyone else ran away. Now they have little support for a normal life.

Muslims from Sierra Leone were banned from going on Hajj during the Ebola outbreak.

Interviewees in a documentary have provided detailed testimony of serving as child soldiers.

Four people have died from the virus since February 29.

The KNVB says it wants to "combat this scourge" in the sport of football.

Health authorities are still looking for 48 people who may be carrying the virus.

The deal comes days after an Ebola death in Sierra Leone put more than 100 people in quarantine.

The case came hours after West Africa was declared Ebola-free on Thursday.

The virus is back, one day after the WHO declared active transmission had ended.

Will Guinea be the first to reach 90 days without the virus returning?

Corruption is part of life in sub-Saharan Africa, with faith in the police and courts at rock bottom.

One of the first British doctors to respond to Ebola reflects on the economic and social cost of the virus

The organization did not declare the virus to be a global emergency until five months after outbreaks were reported.

A 10-year-old boy has contracted the disease in Monrovia, according to officials.

Over 11,000 people have died in West Africa since the worst Ebola epidemic on record began over 18 months ago.

The fight against the ebola epidemic has ended in the country, for now.

Less than 2 percent of all Ebola donations went to front-line medical staff in Sierra Leone.

After 42 days without a new case, the WHO declares that the nation is no longer afflicted with the virus.

The CDC has revised its guidelines for Ebola survivors and sex.