| 单词 | Freetown |
| 例句 | “I was supposed to come to Freetown for school, but then the war came. I heard it is a beautiful city,” Alhaji said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I couldn’t even afford to return to Freetown if I wanted to. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, I was happy to have made it out of Freetown, to have escaped the possibility of becoming a soldier again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As we drove into Freetown, the field-worker introduced himself: “My name is Leslie, it is a pleasure to meet you gentlemen.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I was sitting next to a Fulani fellow by the name of Jalloh, who said he had lived in Freetown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z A neighbor in Freetown had told me about this only way out of the country. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “No, I cannot teach ballet, but I have a book about ballet at my parents’ home in Freetown. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I left Freetown early in the morning of the seventh day after my uncle passed away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Upline is a Krio word mostly used in Freetown to refer to the backwardness of the inner country, its inhabitants, and their mannerisms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But on the first day of school in Freetown, all the students sat apart from us, as if Mohamed and I were going to snap any minute and kill someone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I had a speech that had been written for me in Freetown, but I decided to speak from my heart, instead. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z This was the only way to get out of Freetown without being killed by the armed men and boys of the new government, who hated it when people left the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He lived in New England Ville, a hilly area in the western part of Freetown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t sound like Freetown,” he said, and was silent for a bit before he continued. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z That was the story of my relationship with girls in Freetown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I still didn’t know where we were going, but I was sure now that we were in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I thought I had seen tall buildings in Freetown, but these were beyond tall, it seemed they were poking the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Not more than a week later, I was talking at gatherings in Freetown about child soldiering and how it must be stopped. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Isatu knew he wouldn’t leave without her blessing, and she told him she didn’t want him to return to Freetown. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Her step-mother was in Freetown when the capital was twice invaded by rebels in the late 1990s. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z The area was neglected until it was taken over by residents in 1961, first as a playground and then as the base of Freetown, an experimental anarchist community that proclaimed itself self-governing and self-sufficient. The New Noma: Frequently Asked Questions 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The RAF flight took off from Freetown Lungi airport. Briton with Ebola virus being flown home 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Failing to secure another round of funding for her workers' co-op in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Jill decides to get the money by smuggling blood diamonds in a food convoy. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain – review 2013-06-29T08:00:19Z He is also scheduled to visit Freetown, Conakry and Abuja in Nigeria. Ebola: airlines cancel more flights to affected countries 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z I found myself in Freetown less than an hour later. Glimpses: Freetown, Sierra Leone, August, 2008 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z On Wednesday, Air France became the latest carrier to announce a suspension of its services to Sierra Leone, while British Airways said it was stopping its flights to Freetown and Monrovia until next year. Ebola epidemic will get worse before it gets better, top US health body warns 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Edna Lewis was born in Freetown, Va., a small community founded by three former slaves, one of whom was her grandfather. The 4 essential cooks I turn to again and again 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “They had no name for their new state, but they had a name for their planned capital — Freistadt, or Freetown.” ‘Utopia: Revisiting a German State in America’ on exhibit in Washington In “The Taste of Country Cooking,” Lewis wrote of her childhood in Freetown, a rural settlement in Orange County, Va., founded by formerly enslaved people, Lewis’s grandparents Chester and Lucinda among them. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z She and Martin had long paid the school fees for about seven children and owned a plot in Freetown, where they had hoped to build a modern hospital, the best in the country. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z She also started to raise money for the hospital she hoped to open in Freetown. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z With the knowledge and consent of Wilberforce and friends, they were taken to Sierra Leone and put to slave labour in Freetown. Wilberforce was complicit in slavery 2010-08-03T11:59:00Z With Isatu’s reluctant blessing, Martin had returned to work a few months earlier as chief surgeon of a hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, despite the outbreak. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z He will deliver the message from the Connaught Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ebola nurse to deliver C4 message 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z But she has their shared dream of the modern hospital in Freetown. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Before I could start investigating, I found myself faced with an even greater challenge: getting from Lungi International Airport to the nearby capital city of Freetown. Glimpses: Freetown, Sierra Leone, August, 2008 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z See Also: Roaming Sierra Leone Because Freetown is so hilly, Lungi was built across the bay on a stretch of seaside marsh, much like Hong Kong's airport. Glimpses: Freetown, Sierra Leone, August, 2008 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z He flew out to Sierra Leone earlier this year, initially intending to volunteer for six months at a hospice mainly providing care for people with cancer or Aids in the capital, Freetown. Infected nurse airlifted from Ebola zone speaks of joy at seeing patients recover 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z My first voyage was to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to collect iron ore for the war effort. Experience: I survived 15 days adrift on a raft 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It was the government’s second attempt to sell the diamond after it rejected the highest bid of $7.8 million at an initial auction in the capital Freetown in May. Sierra Leone "Peace Diamond" sells for $6.5 million at auction 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z My parents are West African — they moved from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to London in the early ’70s. Idris Elba, Gamer (That’s Why He Was So Keen on ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’) 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z After abolition, several hundred of them a year were still ending up as slaves in Freetown. Wilberforce was complicit in slavery 2010-08-03T11:59:00Z There was the intimate performance in a Lower East Side bookstore, and rehearsals in Midtown for shows he’s about to perform to celebrate his new album, “Freetown Sound,” released under the alias Blood Orange. Dev Hynes: New York’s Last Bohemian on the City and His New Album 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z This awareness is prevalent on his most recent album, “Freetown Sound,” named for the capital of his father’s native Sierra Leone. Blood Orange blends guitar, poetry and the cello to explore his black identity 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Dr Oliver Johnson, who has been treating patients in Freetown, said his friend Pooley was a professional and dedicated nurse who "absolutely understood that there were risks involved". Infected nurse airlifted from Ebola zone speaks of joy at seeing patients recover 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z But once he returns those two narratives to the original timeline — Freetown, late 2014 — the book swerves back 500 years, all the way to the origins of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z She was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and raised in Montgomery County, Md. Through her company, Combing Cotton, she pursues her interest in social equity. Collecting to Explore ‘Origin, Culture, Form, Function and Race’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Her son, the fifth in a line of men in her family named Myles, was shot and killed in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in January 1999. Finding Art Miles Away From the Expected 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z That doctor was being evacuated from Freetown, the WHO has said, without disclosing the person’s identity or where he or she was headed. Fourth Ebola patient arrives in the US for treatment in Atlanta 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It was the government’s second attempt to sell the diamond after it rejected the highest bid of $7.8 million at an initial auction in the capital Freetown in May. Sierra Leone "Peace Diamond" sells for $6.5 million at auction 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z She had cooked for them when they came to hang out and study in the home she and Martin shared in Freetown 20 years ago. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z A nationwide hunt was sparked in the capital, Freetown, when a patient was forcibly removed from hospital last week. Ebola outbreak sparks states of emergency in Liberia and Sierra Leone 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z No, according to the admirable Max Chevalier of Handicap International in Freetown: "Good grief, should we just do nothing at all then?" War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman 2010-05-07T23:11:00Z Last month, it cut power to Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, over an unpaid bill of $40m. Guinea-Bissau capital without power over unpaid bill to Turkey's Karpowership 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has been hit by power cuts after Turkey's Karpowership switched off the electricity supply due to an unpaid debt of around $40 million, the energy minister said on Friday. UK, Singapore partner to boost economic growth, strengthen security 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z They also made gains in the opposition heartland of the north and west, especially in the capital Freetown. Sierra Leone ruling party wins 60% of parliamentary seats in contested vote 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z His supporters thronged the streets of Freetown, the capital, wearing green T-shirts, his party’s color, and chanting his name. Sierra Leone’s President Re-Elected, Barely Avoiding a Runoff 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Police fired tear gas at supporters gathered at APC headquarters in the capital Freetown on Sunday after the crowd turned rowdy, police said in a statement. Sierra Leone election observers urge transparent tallying as unrest simmers 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Margaret Ngegba, a trader in the capital of Freetown, said she hoped for a winner “who feels for us and provides our children jobs.” Sierra Leone’s president seeks another term as opponents complain about the economy and unemployment 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z "We will do a lot more things to ensure people are comfortable," he told Reuters in an interview in a Freetown cafe. Sierra Leoneans vote in election with cost-of-living centre stage 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z But the APC, which earlier said it had decided to reject the results of the June 24 general election, citing "glaring irregularities", retained control of the important mayorship of Freetown with 51.3% of the vote. Sierra Leone ruling party wins 60% of parliamentary seats in contested vote 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z “The voting went pretty well — people showed up, they wanted to vote and they wanted their voice to be heard,” Mr. Hume said in a telephone interview from Freetown. Sierra Leone’s President Re-Elected, Barely Avoiding a Runoff 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Schools, offices and most shops were closed in Freetown on Monday. Sierra Leone election observers urge transparent tallying as unrest simmers 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z This week, the APC said one person was killed by security forces as its supporters gathered for a protest at its headquarters in Freetown on Wednesday. Sierra Leone election: Tense poll amid fears of violence 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Hundreds waited in line at a polling station in a hilltop district of the capital Freetown, including first-time voter Abu Koroma, 23, who arrived in darkness two hours before polls opened. Sierra Leoneans vote in election with cost-of-living centre stage 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Only the splintered base of the tree remains in the center of Freetown, the capital. Your Friday Briefing 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The kapok tree stood in the middle of a roundabout in central Freetown near the national museum and the president's office. Sierra Leone loses historic tree, a symbol of freedom, in rainstorm 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z A towering cotton tree which has stood for several hundred years in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, has been brought down by a heavy storm. Sierra Leone's iconic cotton tree felled by storm 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Kapulun, 29, an electrical engineer who installed solar panels back home in Freetown, said he faced repression in Sierra Leone because of his sexual orientation. At Mexico's southern border, the migrant flow is undeterred 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Lewis was born in 1916, one of eight children, and she learned to cook from the people in Freetown, who lived an agrarian lifestyle. On the Edna Lewis Menu Trail, a toast to an iconic chef and her hometown As Freetown developed into a modern capital, the tree stood at the center of a roundabout, near the president’s official residence and the High Court. Your Friday Briefing 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z "The Freetown skyline will hardly be the same again." Sierra Leone loses historic tree, a symbol of freedom, in rainstorm 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Just 300m away are the Freedom Steps, climbed by newly arrived freed slaves who offered prayers at the tree before making Freetown their home. Sierra Leone's iconic cotton tree felled by storm 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The initiative is nicknamed “Freetown the tree town.” She Is Africa’s First Heat Officer. Can She Make Her City Livable? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z A new historical marker is in the works that will provide a physical representation of Lewis’s legacy — and that of Freetown. On the Edna Lewis Menu Trail, a toast to an iconic chef and her hometown Mr. Fofana grew up in Goderich, a buzzing wharf in western Freetown teeming with colorful wooden boats, market vendors selling poultry and fresh fish and children kicking balls around. Nets, Buoys, Salt, Ice. For West African Fishermen, ‘Everything’ Is Going Up. 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Back in Freetown, calm has returned to the streets and most traders have reopened their shops again. Fuel protests in more than 90 countries, BBC analysis 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z I would then have to go the telecommunications HQ in the capital, Freetown, to make a reverse-charge call to London to be able to file a report for the BBC. Sierra Leone's civil war: 'I was shot by rebels' - the dangers of reporting 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z For now, intense heat makes daily life in Freetown insufferable for many residents, Ms. Kargbo said, with reports of heat strokes, dizziness and kidney diseases. She Is Africa’s First Heat Officer. Can She Make Her City Livable? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “And I know it would be amazing to Aunt Edna, and I know it would be amazing to the people of Freetown that people are wanting to hear her story and thereby hear their story.” On the Edna Lewis Menu Trail, a toast to an iconic chef and her hometown Cyril Jengo, an economist based in Freetown, said making ice was costly in countries with regular power cuts like Sierra Leone. Nets, Buoys, Salt, Ice. For West African Fishermen, ‘Everything’ Is Going Up. 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z For days, Khadija had been watching growing crowds of demonstrators rally, gathering only metres from her house on the east side of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Fuel protests in more than 90 countries, BBC analysis 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Instead, a few days after posing for pictures in wedding gear in Freetown, Turay was represented at his wedding ceremony in the capital by his brother, a feature which is not uncommon in Islamic marriages. Brother stands in as groom skips wedding to train 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “Freetown was beautiful, and I saw that beauty fading away,” she said. She Is Africa’s First Heat Officer. Can She Make Her City Livable? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “I grew up in Freetown, Virginia, a community of farming people,” Lewis wrote in her 1976 memoir/cookbook, “The Taste of Country Cooking.” On the Edna Lewis Menu Trail, a toast to an iconic chef and her hometown This summer an unknown number of demonstrators died in protests over the rising cost of living in Freetown. Nets, Buoys, Salt, Ice. For West African Fishermen, ‘Everything’ Is Going Up. 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Freetown, a West African coastal capital of 1.27 million people, will go from nine to 120 extremely hot days by 2050. Extreme Heat Saps Billions in Worker Productivity 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Jalloh was born in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, one of 11 children and his parents gave him up for adoption at the age of 6 because they couldn’t afford to keep him. The Tiafoe Effect: US tennis star has big impact in Africa 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Freetown has an equatorial climate that brings little variation in temperature throughout the year, and barely any respite at night. She Is Africa’s First Heat Officer. Can She Make Her City Livable? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Throughout her career, Lewis’s work served as a means of preserving the memory of Freetown and its people, and to share that with the world through cooking. On the Edna Lewis Menu Trail, a toast to an iconic chef and her hometown But that migration is driving deforestation and making the heat problem worse, according to Eugenia Kargbo, the chief heat officer of Freetown, the West African country’s capital. How ‘heat officers’ plan to help cities survive ever-hotter summers 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, police used tear gas and guns to disperse large crowds of protesters throwing rocks and burning tires in Freetown, the capital, and other cities. World Digest: Aug. 12, 2022 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z He ran away from his adopted family and lived on the streets of Freetown before reuniting with his mother. The Tiafoe Effect: US tennis star has big impact in Africa 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z One police officer was killed in Freetown and three others died in two towns in the country’s northeast, according to a police statement. Protests in Sierra Leone Over Rising Cost of Living Turn Deadly 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z A police officer aims his gun as anti-government protests continue, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 10, 2022 in this screen grab taken from video obtained from social media. At least 13 civilians killed in Sierra Leone protests, say mortuary staff 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Thirty-five percent of Freetown’s population of 1.2 million lives in informal settlements that are ill-equipped for high temperatures. How ‘heat officers’ plan to help cities survive ever-hotter summers 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Videos on social media showed large crowds of protesters and piles of burning tyres in eastern Freetown. Sierra Leone imposes nationwide curfew amid deadly anti-government protests 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The laws will apply to each of Sierra Leone’s provinces, but not the capital city, Freetown, and its suburbs, which have a different legal system. New Laws of the Land: Sierra Leone Reshapes Environmental Battleground 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z On Friday, an overnight curfew was still in place even as calm had returned to Freetown. Protests in Sierra Leone Over Rising Cost of Living Turn Deadly 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z One of the laws will also end a colonial-era provision that bars descendants of freed slaves from owning land outside the capital, Freetown. Sierra Leone passes new laws to boost landowners' rights 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In newly urbanized areas, many women engage in informal trade, selling vegetables and fruits at one of Freetown’s 42 markets. How ‘heat officers’ plan to help cities survive ever-hotter summers 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Cities around the world — from Los Angeles to Freetown, Sierra Leone — are already beginning to appoint heat officers and develop heat action plans. With Record-Breaking Heat, Europe Glimpses Its Climate Future 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z One of the laws will also end a colonial-era rule preventing descendants of freed slaves from owning land outside Freetown. New Laws of the Land: Sierra Leone Reshapes Environmental Battleground 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Thousands of the stalls that line up Freetown’s most popular street market, and where many of the female protesters worked, had been destroyed overnight. Protests in Sierra Leone Over Rising Cost of Living Turn Deadly 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “People don’t hate their kids,” said Chernor Bah, who runs Purposeful, a feminist advocacy organization in Freetown that works to end cutting. Risking a Society’s Retribution, Growing Numbers of Girls Resist Genital Cutting 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “There are lucky weeks. There are lucky months,” said Frances Wurie-Sesay, an obstetrician at the King Harmon Maternity and Child Health Hospital in the capital, Freetown. Where pregnancy is a deadly gamble The answers “are relevant not just to us, but have implications for the greater public good,” said Austin Demby, Sierra Leone’s health minister, in an interview in Freetown, the capital. Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “What we say is, better one dose than zero,” Austin Demby, Sierra Leone’s health minister, said in an interview in the capital, Freetown. In Africa, a Mix of Shots Drives an Uncertain Covid Vaccination Push 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z It was unclear who was behind the destruction, but Freetown’s mayor, Yvonne Aki Sawyerr, an opponent to the current government, said in a statement the city council was not responsible for it. Protests in Sierra Leone Over Rising Cost of Living Turn Deadly 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Medical staff in the capital Freetown say that 90% of the male admissions to the central psychiatric ward are due to Kush use. Kush: The deadly new drug sweeping Sierra Leone 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z A driver died at about 7:30 a.m. when a car went off Route 140 in Freetown, Massachusetts, state police said. Winter storm leaves schools facing tough choices amid surge in COVID cases 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z A devastating mudslide ripped through Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown in August 2017, burying homes and killing at least 1,100 people. Deforestation Strengthens Storms in West Africa 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Heaps of shells and husks discarded by juice sellers around Freetown provide an energy source that requires no chopping. He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa. After a day of calm on Thursday, protesters demonstrated again on Friday in Freetown, the capital city, with police firing live ammunition at the crowds, according to videos shared on social media. Protests in Sierra Leone Over Rising Cost of Living Turn Deadly 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Hundreds of Kamara's supporters accompanied him when he was brought in for questioning at the anti-corruption commission headquarters in Freetown earlier this month, saying the charges were politically motivated. Sierra Leone indicts opposition front-runner for alleged corruption 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z They established a self-governing hippy commune called Freetown Christiania, which the Danish government permitted as a ‘social experiment’. Christiania: Europe’s largest hippy commune 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z In places like Freetown, local communities are working to slow deforestation. Deforestation Strengthens Storms in West Africa 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z On August 14, 2017, rocks, debris and mud flowed from above, destroying hundreds of homes and killing more than a 1,000 people in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa. Several days after the explosion in Freetown, the country’s capital and largest city, the tragedy has claimed more lives and put the country’s already precarious health care system to the test. After Sierra Leone Explosion, a Health System Is Strained 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Coffins containing the remains of victims of the fuel tanker explosion are pictured during a burial ceremony at a cemetery in Freetown, Sierra Leone November 8, 2021. Deaths from Sierra Leone tanker blast rise to 144 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z A crowd gathers to watch them work - a mix of bystanders and medical staff from the Connaught Hospital in downtown Freetown, where the bodies are being loaded. Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Survivors try to rebuild lives 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Speaking at an event hosted during the most recent United Nations climate conference in November, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown, highlighted the growing risks climate change is posing to her city. Deforestation Strengthens Storms in West Africa 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z But Freetown’s mounts were going bald as people collected timber to clear lots for housing and make charcoal, the top cooking fuel in a nation where electricity is often unreliable. He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa. At a hospital in Freetown known as 34 Military, the mortality rate has been around 60 percent. After Sierra Leone Explosion, a Health System Is Strained 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z The tanker exploded following a collision in a suburb of Freetown. Deaths from Sierra Leone tanker blast rise to 144 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z At the scene of the accident, in Freetown's eastern suburb of Wellington, the smell of burnt rubber still hangs in the air more than 48 hours after the blaze. Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Survivors try to rebuild lives 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z More than 100 people were killed after the tanker collided with a lorry in the capital, Freetown. Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Mass burial in Freetown 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z His roster of clients grew to include grocery stores around Freetown. He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa. In another video circulated on WhatsApp, survivors of the explosion lay on the floor, tried to sit up, or moved about groaning in a room of Freetown’s King Harman Road Satellite Hospital. Tanker Truck Explodes in Sierra Leone, Killing at Least 98 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The tanker burst into flames at a busy intersection after colliding with a truck in Freetown’s suburb of Wellington, turning the night sky orange, photos and video show. Fuel tanker explosion kills at least 98 in Sierra Leone 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The explosion took place in the early hours after a bus struck the tanker in Wellington, a suburb just to the east of Freetown. Oil tanker explodes in Sierra Leone; scores feared dead 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The port city of Freetown, which is home to just over a million people, has faced several serious disasters in recent years. Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Mass burial in Freetown 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z So at 12, he sneaked away from home in his eastern village, hitching a ride to Freetown. He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa. The government has not yet confirmed the death toll, but the manager of the central state morgue in Freetown said it had received 91 bodies following the explosion. Fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone capital kills at least 91, says morgue 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Several people are believed to have died and dozens more are injured after a massive explosion in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Sierra Leone explosion: Many feared dead after oil tanker collision 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Living there: Hickory Crest is bounded by Owen Brown Road to the north, Cardinal Lane to the east, Freetown Road to the south and southwest, and Cedar Lane to the west. In Columbia, Md., Hickory Crest is a good place for the golden years 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It sits in a patch of pristine rainforest on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown. Serra Leone's chimpanzees: The newly weds who set up a sanctuary 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In 2016, the minister of internal affairs at the time publicly ordered the gallows cleaned at the central prison in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, after two men were sentenced to hang. One by One, African Countries Dismantle Colonial-Era Death Penalty Laws 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z The first, “The Last Vet,” appeared in 2010, about a vet in Freetown in Sierra Leone. Review: These powerful, far-flung essays never stop moving 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The positive tests were announced just before kickoff in Freetown. African Cup qualifier canceled over disputed COVID-19 tests 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Then it is time for Abdoulaye Kanu, a former sales agent for a mobile phone network in Freetown, to get to work. Sea-cucumber divers off Liberia risk danger to feed a hunger in China 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Eddy's father also spoke about a remarkable encounter at a cocktail party at the British ambassador's residence in Freetown. The airman from Sierra Leone who was shot down over Nazi Germany 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z And each time the virus reached a new urban center, like Freetown — or, in the case of COVID-19, New York City — it erupted. What this West African village’s Ebola fight can teach the U.S. about COVID-19 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Both are Youngstown State University students from Freetown, Sierra Leone, as were the two people killed. Crash kills 2 university students, injures 2 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z He is a general practitioner, looking to specialize in infectious diseases, so he reports to his mentor, the only infectious disease specialist in Sierra Leone, who works elsewhere in Freetown. Sierra Leone doctor in dedicated mission against COVID-19 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Aliou Ba, who goes by the name of "Ali Diver", hopes the trade will continue long enough to allow him to follow his dreams of eventually opening up a small shop in Freetown. Sea-cucumber divers off Liberia risk danger to feed a hunger in China 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Baimba Idriss, a physician at 34 Military Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, explains that isolating at home is impractical in the country. Ebola prepared these countries for coronavirus — but now even they are floundering 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Four years before COVID-19 swept the globe, I climbed onto the back of a motorbike in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and headed three miles up the steep, dusty terrain behind the local Shell gas station. What this West African village’s Ebola fight can teach the U.S. about COVID-19 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Memunatu Margao, a shop attendant in central Freetown, expressed disappointment with the overturning of the ban: "I will not allow my daughter to sit in class with someone pregnant - that's a very bad influence". Sierra Leone overturns ban on pregnant schoolgirls 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z In 2014 I was doing long-term fieldwork in an ordinary neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s bustling capital city, when the Ebola virus hit. What Ebola taught me about coronavirus: panic will get us nowhere 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Looking unwell and struggling to walk, he sat down on a plastic chair in his sparsely furnished hotel room in the capital, Freetown. 'We were deported from the US to the wrong country' 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Miranda Rosyski, 21, of Freetown, is scheduled to be arraigned on 13 counts of animal cruelty at Fall River District Court on March 3. Woman faces charges in mistreatment of more than 27 animals 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z When I asked Malcolm Albert, a burly health worker in east Freetown, about the dynamics that led to his post-traumatic stress, he leaned back in his folding chair outside the hospital tent. What this West African village’s Ebola fight can teach the U.S. about COVID-19 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Founded on April 25, 1822, Monrovia became the second permanent African American settlement in Africa after Freetown, Sierra Leone. Five cities or villages outside United States named after an American president 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Freetown was at the heart of the crisis. What Ebola taught me about coronavirus: panic will get us nowhere 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The British film star landed in the capital Freetown on Wednesday for his first visit to the country. Idris Elba to receive Sierra Leone citizenship 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z That was only the beginning of the horrors Fatmata, aged 28, from Freetown, Sierra Leone, experienced as she tried to cross West Africa to the Mediterranean. ‘We failed to reach Europe – now our families disown us’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z A British warship intercepted the slave ship he was being carried on and he arrived in Freetown as a "liberated African" aged around 13 years old. The former slaves asked to spread British culture in Africa 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z James Longworth, from Freetown, south of Boston, died last week, Boston 25 reported. Eastern Equine Encephalitis kills Massachusetts man; 2nd death in state this year 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z By choosing to continue with their lives during the Ebola outbreak, my friends and neighbours in Freetown did not lose sight of the bigger picture. What Ebola taught me about coronavirus: panic will get us nowhere 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Parts of Freetown were in shambles, and communications were spotty, leaving many to wonder about the fate of relatives and loved ones. Bahamas Stunned as Hurricane Recedes: ‘It’s Like a Bomb Went Off’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Last December, she arrived back in Freetown, by bus from Mali - after nearly two years away. ‘We failed to reach Europe – now our families disown us’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Serious damage is reported on Friday in Freetown as homes and vehicles are swamped in the port city of more than 1 million people. Flash flooding swamps Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z In a speech in Freetown, he said that hundreds of incidents of sexual violence are reported each month — and that about 70 percent of victims are younger than 15. Young girls’ trauma leads Sierra Leone to declare a national emergency over rape 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z After posing for a group photo during a brief trip outside, Chad Gilbert of Freetown, Mass., said the Wentworth visit was his first event with the snowshoe men. Cold weather doesn’t deter frontier ranger re-enactors 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Between five and 15 sex workers are arrested every month in Freetown, and many are forced to pay bribes to avoid jail, according to AdvocAid, which provides free legal representation and support to vulnerable women. 'I beg them to let me go': Sierra Leone's sex workers targeted by police 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z His elder brother, Sheik Umar, a former professional footballer, says: "We are hearing he is in Freetown, he is suffering. And yet he hasn't got the guts to face any of us in the family." ‘We failed to reach Europe – now our families disown us’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Currently passengers need to get a boat or helicopter to reach Freetown. Sierra Leone cancels China-funded airport 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z This dance has taken place several times a day this summer between the government of Denmark and Freetown Christiania, one of Europe’s longest-running utopian experiments. In anarchic corner of Copenhagen, police and dealers play cat and mouse 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The last Blood Orange record, 2016’s “Freetown Sound,” was also about what Hynes “is,” or might be — an exploration of his family roots in Sierra Leone and Guyana. How Dev Hynes, English Misfit, Became Blood Orange, R.&B. Miracle Worker 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Sinneh Kamara, a coroner forensic technician working in Freetown, says every month he buries more than 10 sex workers aged between 13 and 26. 'I beg them to let me go': Sierra Leone's sex workers targeted by police 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Johnson had been helping to improve management systems in Freetown’s main government hospital, the Connaught, as part of the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership. Book lifts lid on litany of mistakes in Ebola outbreak that killed 11,300 people 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr Walker told the BBC in June he was in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, saying he first visited the country earlier in 2018 because his grandfather was born there. Fugitive who taunted police arrested 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z COPENHAGEN, Denmark — When a phalanx of Danish policemen in bulletproof vests crosses the boundary into Christiania Freetown, the hippie commune in the center of Copenhagen, many things happen at once. In anarchic corner of Copenhagen, police and dealers play cat and mouse 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “For six years, I thought my big fut was caused by evil witchcraft,” she said outside her shack in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. How Sierra Leone is beating tropical diseases 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Mariatu was 15 years old when her widowed mother died and she ended up sleeping rough on the streets of Freetown where she fell into commercial sex work. 'I beg them to let me go': Sierra Leone's sex workers targeted by police 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Walsh had worked in Asia and central Africa before coming to Freetown. Book lifts lid on litany of mistakes in Ebola outbreak that killed 11,300 people 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Mansaray, a Muslim from Freetown in Sierra Leone, had moved there five years ago to study science and technology with hopes of becoming a teacher. No food, no water: African migrants recount terrifying Atlantic crossing 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The animal control office in Freetown says the first bird was captured after being seen in the middle of a road. Loose emus captured in Massachusetts town 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z He won just under 52% of the vote and took the presidential oath in the capital Freetown on Wednesday. Sierra Leone swears in new president Bio 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z She said the treatment of sex workers by police briefly improved after Kolonko was screened in Freetown last year. 'I beg them to let me go': Sierra Leone's sex workers targeted by police 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Embassy in Freetown dismissed the allegations, describing them as baseless. Sierra Leone Inaugurates Former Junta Head as President 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The first of the victims was a 10-year-old girl in Western Freetown, whose remains were found in a large, checked bag made from thick plastic. The country where children fear election time 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z According to our reporter in Freetown, Mr Kamara is offering the country the option of "continuation" - arguing the current administration is making strides forward which need to be built on. Ex-coup leader wins Sierra Leone first round 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Ibrahim Polo Man Kamara, who lives in Freetown, said he planned to vote for Mr. Bio because of his education proposal. Sierra Leone Hopes Election Can Move Nation Past Its Misfortunes 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In this instance, they're talking about how to choreograph a show at a hotel in Freetown - the theme was Sierra Leonean tradition. The street dancers who dream big 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Later he became principal of west Africa’s oldest university, Fourah Bay College in Freetown. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Alimatu spent the next four days wandering all over Freetown, checking areas where runaway children are known to sleep rough. The country where children fear election time 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In addition to the spread of urban areas, the images also highlight the extent of deforestation — one of the factors that helps trigger landslides — to the south of Freetown. Satellite Eye on Earth: November and December 2017 - in pictures 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Last August, torrential rains set off the huge mudslide in Freetown, the capital. Sierra Leone Hopes Election Can Move Nation Past Its Misfortunes 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The programme had to be suspended for four months and money flown in from a UN mission in Freetown. How to stop countries sliding back into civil war 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Kenyans queued to vote in fraught elections and the president of Sierra Leone called for urgent help after a mudslide engulfed houses near the capital, Freetown. The year's top development stories: 2017 in review 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z An earlier bid of $7.8m was rejected by the government when the stone was initially auctioned in Freetown, after it said that the figure was too low. Giant 'peace diamond' sells for $6.5m 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The eye hospital in Freetown also welcomed the researchers. Ebola’s Legacy: Children With Cataracts 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The highest bid of $7.7 million was turned down in Freetown in May. Sierra Leone’s 709 carat diamond lands in Antwerp for sale 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z NO ONE knows exactly how many people died in a series of mudslides that happened in and near Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, on August 14th. Counting raindrops using mobile-phone towers 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z One month ago, a mudslide devastated parts of Freetown, Sierra Leone. In pictures: Life after the mudslide 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Over a year later, I was released from the Freetown Female Correctional Centre in Sierra Leone. 'I didn't mean to plead guilty' 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Embassy in Freetown, according to a fourth cable. Exclusive: U.S. won't issue some visas in four nations in deportation crackdown 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s been almost a month since torrential rains caused widespread flooding and a mountainside to collapse on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, sending a blanket of mud into several communities. Sierra Leone faces long slog to recovery after devastating mudslide 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Last month, more than 1,000 people died from a mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. UN chief says natural disasters have quadrupled since 1970 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Low-cost houses are being built in Six Mile, a far suburb of Freetown. In pictures: Life after the mudslide 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z A mudslide that killed as many as 1,000 people in Freetown, Sierra Leone in July was also triggered by torrential rain. As flood waters rise, is urban sprawl as much to blame as climate change? 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Embassy in Freetown, according to a fourth cable. Exclusive: U.S. won't issue some visas in four nations in deportation crackdown 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “While flooding is a natural disaster, the scale of the human tragedy in Freetown is, sadly, very much man-made,” Makmid Kamara, Amnesty International’s deputy director of global issues, said in a recent statement. Sierra Leone faces long slog to recovery after devastating mudslide 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The Aug. 14 mudslide at Freetown's crowded Mount Sugar Loaf killed an estimated 500 people, but hundreds of others are still missing. Guinea says 19 bodies washed up after Sierra Leone mudslide 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The destination for Mr. Suma and most runners in Freetown is a road skirting Aberdeen Beach, a spot that on most Sunday mornings looks like an open-air gym. Is a Jogging Ban in Sierra Leone for Safety or to Suppress Opposition? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Regent is an area on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, where the mudslide hit. Local Leaders Say 1,000 Dead From Sierra Leone Mudslides 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms Kamara is now staying with her brother Mohammed, who lives in the east of Freetown. Sierra Leone mudslide: How survivors lost everything - BBC News 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Foreign aid from the rest of the world is being sent to Freetown, said authorities. Sierra Leone churches hold services for mudslide victims 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The Aug. 14 mudslide at Freetown's crowded Mount Sugar Loaf killed an estimated 500 people, but hundreds of others are still missing. Guinea says 19 bodies washed up after Sierra Leone mudslide 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The death toll is already above 450 from the flooding and mudslides in the capital, Freetown, early Monday. Hundreds missing in Sierra Leone mudslides likely dead 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Some critics accuse Sierra Leone's government of failing to learn from past disasters in Freetown, where many poor areas are near sea level and lack good drainage. Local Leaders Say 1,000 Dead From Sierra Leone Mudslides 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z This week Sierra Leone's capital Freetown experienced a devastating mudslide and flooding that claimed over 400 lives. Reflections on Sierra Leone's mudslide disaster - BBC News 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z On Friday, Sierra Leone buried 461 victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of Freetown, the capital, and 600 more people are missing. Congo landslide death toll likely to rise over 200: Ituri governor 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Hundreds are also missing after the side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed near Freetown on Monday in one of the worst flooding-related disasters in Africa in years. Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Many poor areas around Freetown are near sea level and lack good drainage, which makes flooding worse during the rainy season. Warnings of More Mudslides in Sierra Leone as Toll Hits 350 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z This grieving mother who lost her son in the disaster waits outside the university hospital in Freetown the day before to identify his body. Africa's week in pictures: 11 - 17 August 2017 - BBC News 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z I live just a few metres outside Freetown's largest slum, Kroo Bay. Reflections on Sierra Leone's mudslide disaster - BBC News 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z On Friday, Sierra Leone buried 461 victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of Freetown, the capital, and 600 more people are missing. Congo landslide death toll likely to rise over 200: Ituri governor 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z An additional factor in Freetown was poor urban planning that put people unnecessarily at risk, according to aid groups and flood experts. Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Thousands lost their homes in poor, low-lying areas of Freetown and surrounding communities. Warnings of More Mudslides in Sierra Leone as Toll Hits 350 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z There are estimated to be 61 informal settlements in Freetown. I’ve seen how perilous life in Sierra Leone can be. We cannot ignore this disaster | Hannah Mitchell 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Like most of Freetown, Regent is a mountainous village; the Portuguese explorers who named Sierra Leone derived its name from the mountains: Sera Lyoa - meaning "Lion Mountain". Reflections on Sierra Leone's mudslide disaster - BBC News 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z "While flooding is a natural disaster, the scale of the human tragedy in Freetown is, sadly, very much man-made," said Makmid Kamara, Amnesty's deputy director of global issues. Hundreds still missing in Sierra Leone as search intensifies 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Freetown's population has also grown sharply in recent decades, raising pressure on living space. Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Mudslides and flooding struck Freetown early Monday following torrential rains, with many victims trapped in homes buried under tons of mud. Queen Elizabeth II expresses sadness over Sierra Leone 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Every rainy season the city floods, every year in Freetown people die. I’ve seen how perilous life in Sierra Leone can be. We cannot ignore this disaster | Hannah Mitchell 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Most of Freetown's forest cover, which used to capture the rainfall, has been tampered with. Reflections on Sierra Leone's mudslide disaster - BBC News 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z "While flooding is a natural disaster, the scale of the human tragedy in Freetown is, sadly, very much man-made," said Makmid Kamara, Amnesty's deputy director of global issues. Hundreds still missing in Sierra Leone as search intensifies 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Hundreds are also missing after the side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed near Freetown on Monday in one of the worst flooding-related disasters in Africa in years. Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The monarch, in a message to President Ernest Bai Koroma released Thursday, says she and Prince Philip were “deeply saddened” to learn of the landslides in the capital, Freetown. Queen Elizabeth II expresses sadness over Sierra Leone 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z At least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Sierra Leone mudslide: Gruesome clear-up after disaster - BBC News 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Freetown is one of the world's largest natural harbors and nearly a million people live in and around its forested mountain regions. Explaining the Deadly Sierra Leone Mudslide 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z At least 100 houses were engulfed when a hillside in Regent, a mountainous town 15 miles east of Freetown, collapsed in the early hours of Monday morning. Sierra Leone: fears of second mudslide as week of national mourning begins 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z An additional factor in Freetown was poor urban planning that put people unnecessarily at risk, according to aid groups and flood experts. Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The death toll is expected to rise after mudslides and floodwaters in and around Freetown this week killed hundreds of people, many of them trapped as they slept. Sierra Leone prepares for mass funerals after mudslides 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Rain in Freetown, Sierra Leone, caused mudslides that killed hundreds and left many more missing or homeless. Donald Trump, Luther Strange, Sierra Leone: Your Wednesday Briefing 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z To relieve pressure on the morgue, authorities and aid agencies were preparing to bury the bodies in four cemeteries across Freetown, said an emergency response coordinator for Catholic Relief Services. World Digest: Aug. 15, 2017 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z So far, 109 children are reported among the dead after mudslides and flooding in #Freetown, acc. to data released by the Government. Sierra Leone: fears of second mudslide as week of national mourning begins 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Freetown's population has also grown sharply in recent decades, raising pressure on living space. Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z At a morgue in Freetown, the capital, a resident said he was given a mask and led past hundreds of bodies to look for his 10 missing relatives. Donald Trump, ‘Brexit,’ Madeira: Your Wednesday Briefing 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Nearly 400 people are confirmed dead after a mudslide in the Regent area and floods elsewhere in Freetown on Monday. Sierra Leone mudslide: At least 600 still missing in Freetown - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z An already devastating flood the day before produced even more anguish on Tuesday in Sierra Leone as residents of Freetown, the capital, dug through the mud in search of missing family members. ‘This Is Too Much for Us’: Sierra Leone Deluged by Mud and Grief 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Freetown is a city squeezing itself into the small space between the mountains and the sea, in a country with the highest annual rainfall in Africa. Freetown: A disaster waiting to happen? - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Freetown also is plagued by unregulated building of large residential houses in hilltop areas. Death toll in Sierra Leone mudslides expected to rise 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z At least a hundred houses were hit when a hillside in Regent, a mountainous town 15 miles east of Freetown, collapsed in the early hours of Monday morning. Sierra Leone's deadly mudslide: thousands missing as search continues 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Their homes in Freetown were engulfed after part of Sugar Loaf mountain collapsed following heavy rain early on Monday morning. Sierra Leone mudslides: Desperate dig for Freetown survivors - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Freetown is dotted with scores of informal settlements, many of which are on hilltops or close to the sea, making them vulnerable to landslides and flooding. ‘All We See Is Dead Bodies’: Floods and Mudslides Ravage Sierra Leone 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Freetown was first established in the late 1700s, a home for freed slaves from the US and UK. Freetown: A disaster waiting to happen? - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z In Sierra Leone, as many as 200 people were killed by flooding and mudslides in Freetown, the capital, above. Charlottesville, China, Kenneth Frazier: Your Monday Evening Briefing 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The Red Cross and the government are moving the bodies to a holding centre at Connaught hospital in Freetown. Sierra Leone's deadly mudslide: thousands missing as search continues 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z In 2015, Freetown endured deadly floods sparked by monsoon rains that killed 10 people and left thousands more homeless. Sierra Leone mudslides: Desperate dig for Freetown survivors - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Storms swept through the capital of Freetown early Monday, flooding downtown streets and creating mudslides in hilly areas. Sierra Leone floods, mudslides kill at least 21 people 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z But despite the unique challenges of Freetown. this is not just a problem in Sierra Leone. Freetown: A disaster waiting to happen? - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z On Twitter, people are sharing images of destruction and flooding after downpours in and near Freetown. Sierra Leone mudslide buries houses as many feared trapped - BBC News 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The announcement caused upset among some in the capital of Freetown. Sierra Leone bans jogging in groups after police say they are 'menacing' 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z "It's good news that people realise the impact of what we did to help end the transmission of Ebola," he said while reacting to the findings of the study from the capital Freetown. Ebola virus burial teams 'saved thousands of lives' - BBC News 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Flying between the West African capitals of Freetown and Banjul should take about an hour. Waiting for take-off in West Africa - BBC News 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z It was generally, the report concluded, caused by "the growing occupation of floodplains, increased runoff from hard surfaces, inadequate waste management and silted up drainage" - all factors said to contribute to the problem in Freetown. Freetown: A disaster waiting to happen? - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Dozens of people are feared trapped after a mudslide near Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Sierra Leone mudslide buries houses as many feared trapped - BBC News 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Amazon received local and state tax breaks to encourage the company to locate the warehouse near the Fall River and Freetown line. Gov. Baker, Sen. Warren celebrate Amazon warehouse opening 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The diamond, weighing 709 carats, is now locked up in Sierra Leone's central bank in Freetown. Sierra Leone pastor finds huge diamond in Kono - BBC News 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But there are just two flights a week from Freetown and the days didn't fit with my trip. Waiting for take-off in West Africa - BBC News 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The study looked at cases in and around the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown. Ebola 'super-spreaders' cause most cases - BBC News 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z But meanwhile, in Sierra Leone, the rebels, whose uprising began inland, far away from Freetown, were getting closer to the coast. The ‘Tiger Woods of West Africa’ now caddies at Congressional Country Club 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z We're sitting in her home in a slum area of western Freetown. My quarrel with a proud FGM cutter - BBC News 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z AT A busy intersection in downtown Freetown, motorbike-taxi drivers wait for customers. Call it in 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In the end, the best option was to drive from Freetown to Conakry, before flying to Dakar, Senegal's capital, where I spent the night to get my connecting flight to Banjul the following day. Waiting for take-off in West Africa - BBC News 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z My elder siblings and cousins had been gone for three days in a village just outside Freetown. Female Circumcision Must Be Replaced With More Empowering Practices 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The first act takes place at Freetown Golf Club, hard by the Atlantic Ocean, in the beachside Freetown village of Lumley. The ‘Tiger Woods of West Africa’ now caddies at Congressional Country Club 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z She boasts that she is one of the most trusted and prolific cutters - or soweis as they're called in Sierra Leone - in all of Freetown. My quarrel with a proud FGM cutter - BBC News 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The long queues at Britain’s airports of British Africans travelling to Accra, Freetown or Lagos to attend family reunions, weddings or funerals speak to the strengths of the new connections between Britain and Africa. The reality of being black in today’s Britain | David Olusoga 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z You can fly with Air France from Freetown to Conakry because it stops in both cities to pick up passengers before returning to France. Waiting for take-off in West Africa - BBC News 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Young men selling curious looking fluorescent bulbs mounted on pieces of wood is a common sight in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Turning bulbs into aerials in Sierra Leone - BBC News 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Freetown began with nine holes, plus three more crudely constructed by the caddies on a back piece of land, since they weren’t allowed to play on the course itself. The ‘Tiger Woods of West Africa’ now caddies at Congressional Country Club 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z A local burial team at a children's hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, during the Ebola epidemic. Public health: Beating Ebola : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z But the move summed up the goals of Hynes’ performance, one centered around his excellent new LP “Freetown Sound.” Review: Blood Orange invites everyone to 'Freetown' at the Ace Hotel 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Herbert Mc'leod pauses, leans forward on his hilltop porch in central Freetown, and counts on his fingers. The quest to end Sierra Leone's 'hunger season' - BBC News 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Freetown, Sierra Leone, is his father’s birthplace; “Juicy 1-4” references slavery and “Hands Up” is that news bulletin too close to home, advising you to “keep your hood off when you’re walking.” Review: Blood Orange’s ‘Freetown Sound’ is personal, topical 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And then, eventually, he will return to Sierra Leone, to Lumley Beach, to Freetown Golf Club. The ‘Tiger Woods of West Africa’ now caddies at Congressional Country Club 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Dev Hynes dropped Freetown Sound, his new album as Blood Orange, a few days ahead of schedule this week alongside a video for "Augustine." This is your next jam: Blood Orange, Rihanna, and more 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z “Freetown Sound” is about voices—whose get heard, whose have the capacity to guide or haunt you. Blood Orange and the Sound of Identity 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Wildlife officials announced Monday that they were unable to stabilize the dolphin, which was swimming in circles in the Assonet River in Freetown on Saturday. Bottlenose dolphin rescued from Massachusetts river dies 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Thematically fragmented and musically cohesive, Blood Orange deftly explores the signs of the times on “Freetown Sound,” interpreting what’s going on both in and around us. Review: Blood Orange’s ‘Freetown Sound’ is personal, topical 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Abi had gone to visit one of her parents in the east of Freetown when she was abducted and made a wife for one of the rebel commanders. What Living Through War Taught Me About Love 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Kamara grew up in Lungi, a coastal town north of the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown, with his parents and three siblings. European doctors wouldn’t let him play soccer anymore. U.S. specialists had a different opinion. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “Freetown Sound” is named for the capital of Sierra Leone, where Hynes’s father was born. Blood Orange and the Sound of Identity 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z When he was one year old, anti-government rebels from the Revolutionary United Front had attacked their village outside the capital, Freetown. From Brighton to the battlefield: how four young Britons were drawn to jihad | Mark Townsend 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z One year before Bunduka’s family fled north to Senegal, Koroma, his two sisters and his mother got out of Freetown and headed east. From Sierra Leone to the mat, this trio of George Mason wrestlers is tied together 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The Nigerian Army of General Abacha sent the Alpha Jets to attack the military government in Freetown. What Living Through War Taught Me About Love 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z At the time of the Civil War, he owned 120 slaves, more than anyone else in the parish except his brother Antoine, according to a recent history of the nearby Freetown neighborhood. Lafayette ponders what to do with Confederate statue 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z But these fragments give “Freetown Sound” a sense of space and a feeling of history. Blood Orange and the Sound of Identity 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But Ms. Johansen felt the urge to return home, and started a lifestyle magazine in wartime Freetown. War, Disease, Scandals: Slugging It Out in Sierra Leone’s Soccer Politics 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z When ruling party lawmaker Isatu Kabia tabled the Safe Abortion Act 2015 in the capital, Freetown, last December, it was hoped this might open a new chapter in women's health and rights. Letter from Africa: Mugabe the feminist? - BBC News 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z There are conflicting reports: Some say the rebels have attacked Freetown; others say it is a military takeover. What Living Through War Taught Me About Love 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Two of the injured are said to be in a serious condition and need to be taken to the capital, Freetown, for treatment. Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone clashes over market closure - BBC News 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z One of the first voices you hear on “Freetown Sound,” the third album from Blood Orange, is that of a young slam poet named Ashlee Haze. Blood Orange and the Sound of Identity 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But, sitting in an upmarket hotel perched above the sprawling western edge of Freetown, Ms. Johansen said the past month had been tougher than most in the chaotic world of soccer politics here. War, Disease, Scandals: Slugging It Out in Sierra Leone’s Soccer Politics 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z As the virus spread rapidly westward from the remote northeast of the country toward Freetown, all work stopped. Part of Sierra Leone’s History Is Being Dismantled Board by Board 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z An Overseas Development Institute report suggests that in the years following the war, levels of violence were higher in the east of Freetown, the part of the city with the highest percentage of ex-combatants. What Living Through War Taught Me About Love 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Health officials in Freetown said they had placed a total of 109 people who had been in contact with the student before her death in isolation. Sierra Leone puts more than 100 people in quarantine after new Ebola death 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z He clipped an excerpt from it for “By Ourselves,” the first track on “Freetown Sound,” where Haze’s words, now resting atop a saxophone, sound like a hypothesis waiting to be tested. Blood Orange and the Sound of Identity 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The only daughter of a Catholic nurse and a “fiercely” Muslim banker, Ms. Johansen was born in Freetown in 1964, and spent her youth in Britain and West Africa. War, Disease, Scandals: Slugging It Out in Sierra Leone’s Soccer Politics 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Over in Sierra Leone, the declared end of Ebola will mark a return to festivities, after Freetown, the capital, was left deserted a year ago due to the disease's outbreak. New Year: Celebrations begin to mark start of 2016 - BBC News 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Sahr Gevao, a hematologist at the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown and a consultant to the country's Ministry of Health and Sanitation, decided to try the simpler option early on. Special report: Ebola's thin harvest 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest Headstones on the graves of children who died from the Ebola virus at a cemetery for victims in Waterloo, south of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown. How software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z And so on “Freetown Sound” Hynes turns to those who have stood here before and wondered the same thing. Blood Orange and the Sound of Identity 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The first issue covered cross-dressers in Freetown, the city’s tallest man and scantily dressed models. War, Disease, Scandals: Slugging It Out in Sierra Leone’s Soccer Politics 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z They will be able to resume their bid to qualify for the 2017 African Nations Cup finals in Freetown with a Group I qualifier against Gabon in March. Sierra Leone cleared to host games after Ebola ban lifted 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z "Can I hug you?" community nurse Joyce Jebambula asks with a beaming smile as she welcomes me back to her village in Hill Station, Freetown. Ebola outbreak: Stigma and uncertainty stalk survivors - BBC News 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Luckily I did manage to escape from the jungle without being killed and I went to the capital, Freetown, but was unable to find my relatives. Ex-child soldier fought Sierra Leone's war against Ebola - BBC News 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z This is the challenge that animates “Freetown Sound,” a wondrous tapestry of eighties dance music and R. & B., embroidered with fragmentary questions about family and migration, Christianity, and the expectations that come with black masculinity. Blood Orange and the Sound of Identity 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z “That’s another Freetown man,” one said, referring to the capital of neighboring Sierra Leone. Handful of Liberians Running to Prove a Point About Ebola 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The World Health Organization made the announcement at an official ceremony in Freetown after the nation had passed 42 days, or two incubation periods for the virus, without an Ebola case. Sierra Leone Declared Free of Ebola Transmissions 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z I spoke to a survivor who was giving samples as part of the Viral Persistence Study, run by the ministry of health, the WHO, and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Freetown. Ebola outbreak: Stigma and uncertainty stalk survivors - BBC News 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “A lot are having a miserable experience,” said Dr. Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, which operates a survivors’ clinic in Freetown. Sierra Leone Declared Free of Ebola by WHO 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The capital Freetown was transformed into a giant carnival on Friday night as ecstatic crowds took to the streets in an emotional outpouring. WHO officially declares Sierra Leone Ebola-free 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Freetown, at the stroke of midnight - marking 42 days without a single declared case of the disease. Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone to be declared disease-free - BBC News 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The swirl of emotions was evident on the streets of Freetown where people started gathering at midnight in anticipation of the announcement, dancing in celebration. Sierra Leone Declared Free of Ebola Transmissions 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z And the fighting was getting closer to the capital, Freetown. The MLS stars building schools in Sierra Leone 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Cafferkey was first diagnosed with Ebola after she had spent four weeks working as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, mostly with Save the Children at its Ebola treatment centre outside Freetown. Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey's condition improves 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Cafferkey volunteered to work in Sierra Leone and spent four weeks there, mostly with Save the Children at their Ebola treatment centre outside Freetown. Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'critically ill' after condition deteriorates 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z His aunt, older sister and some relatives took care of him in Freetown, the country’s capital, and they later escaped the violence to live in Gambia and Senegal. Michigan’s Darboh becomes US citizen and makes amazing catch 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z His aunt, older sister and some relatives took care of him in Freetown, the country's capital, and they later escaped the violence to live in Gambia and Senegal. Michigan receiver Amara Darboh makes Odell Beckham-like catch days after becoming a US citizen 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z That culminated recently in the opening of the Kei Kamara-Michael Lahoud Education for All School in Allentown, a resettlement district just west of Freetown, to where many victims of the war fled to. The MLS stars building schools in Sierra Leone 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z WHO decided to use chlorine from the government’s own supplies in Freetown. AP Investigation: Bungling by UN agency hurt Ebola response 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Joseph Fair, a U.S. disease expert in Freetown advising the Sierra Leonean government, described WHO as "paralyzed," recalling interminable conference calls debating things like the color of body bags. AP Investigation: World Health agency's bungling hindered Ebola response in Sierra Leone 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Joseph Fair, a U.S. disease expert in Freetown advising the Sierra Leonean government, described WHO as “paralyzed,” recalling interminable conference calls debating things like the color of body bags. AP Investigation: Bungling by UN agency hurt Ebola response 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z "I was deeply shocked," the consultant, Jerome Souquet, wrote in an email to his boss in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. AP Investigation: World Health agency's bungling hindered Ebola response in Sierra Leone 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Last August he was in college in the capital, Freetown, when a call came from his father. In Sierra Leone, Giving the Stigma of Ebola a Good, Swift Kick 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile WHO was “paralyzed,” according to Joseph Fair, an American disease expert who was in Freetown advising the Sierra Leone government. AP Investigation: Bungling by UN agency hurt Ebola response 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The national soccer stadium in Freetown will be adapted to shelter those rendered homeless by the rains, authorities said. Sierra Leone floods kill four, government tells people to stay home 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z A speedboat down Lake Kivu, the swaying bars of Lubumbashi, lobster on the beach outside Freetown, the pink-rock highlands of Ethiopia, the star-crowded night sky outside Timbuktu. My time in Africa: Lessons, experiences and concessions - BBC News 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Meanwhile WHO was "paralyzed," according to Joseph Fair, an American disease expert who was in Freetown advising the Sierra Leone government. AP Investigation: World Health agency's bungling hindered Ebola response in Sierra Leone 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z “Several high-risk contacts have also been lost to follow-up in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown,” the WHO said. Sierra Leone's last known Ebola patient is discharged singing and dancing 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Amid a shortage of body bags, Fair said he spent about 12 hours calling numerous government officials in Freetown, in an attempt to guide a shipment of body bags through customs. AP Investigation: Bungling by UN agency hurt Ebola response 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The body of Hannah Bockarie, a teenage sex worker, was found last week on a beach in the capital, Freetown, with sand stuffed in her mouth. Sierra Leone offers $1,000 reward to find ‘gang-rape killers’ - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z None of the 29 people who had contact with the child and were moved from the densely packed Freetown slum of Magazine Wharf to a voluntary quarantine facility have so far shown signs of illness. Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone may be over, say health workers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Her brother, who sold eggs and other goods on the streets of Freetown, had been fasting for the holy month of Ramadan and said nothing about feeling unwell. Sierra Leone awaits countdown to Ebola-free declaration 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Sankoh, 35, contracted the deadly virus from her young adult son, Moussa, who returned to his home village from Freetown for a visit at the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in July. Sierra Leone's last known Ebola patient is discharged singing and dancing 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The WHO traced the final cases to a man who worked in Freetown, the capital, and then returned to his home village of Massessehbeh in a northern region in the country, called Tonkolili. Sierra Leone Has First Week of No New Ebola Cases 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z He spoke from the country’s capital, Freetown, on Friday in a telephone news briefing about a conference on survivors that was held there this week. Ebola Survivors Face Lingering Pain, Fatigue and Depression 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z It was triggered by a man who absconded from quarantine in Freetown, in order to visit his mother at the end of Ramadan. Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone may be over, say health workers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z As you walk around Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, you feel the desperation of a city willing with all its might for the end to Ebola in its midst. Ebola: 'Isn't that over yet?' - BBC News 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z It is in a historical area called Freetown, which welcomed newly freed slaves in the early 19th century. Urban Explorers Journey Into the Ruins of Long Island 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But challenges remain in re-integrating some orphaned children back into their communities, as I saw on my return to the UK-run St George Foundation Orphanage in Freetown, six months after my first visit. Moving legacy of Ebola worker who died saving children - BBC News 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Despite a decline in cases in recent months, there has been a sudden rise in new infections in the capital Freetown. Ebola cases rise in Sierra Leone capital - BBC News 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Fourteen new cases of Ebola were reported in Sierra Leone last week, 10 of them in the capital Freetown. Ebola: 'Fear, denial and fatigue fuelling outbreak' - BBC News 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z We saw some of the money already pledged being put to use at Freetown's main hospital, Connaught Hospital. Ebola: 'Isn't that over yet?' - BBC News 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z She left Aspen on January 12 and flew to Boston for two days of training before flying to Freetown, Sierra Leone. Treating Ebola patients rewarding for local nurse 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Sierra Leone recently recorded 10 new confirmed Ebola cases, focused in the east of Freetown. Liberia confirms 2 new Ebola cases 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z She remembers bringing throngs of women to demonstrate on the steps of the courthouse in Freetown, the capital. U.N. Envoy Draws on Her Own Past to Help Abused Women 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Sierra Leonean authorities quarantined three doctors and 28 nurses in Freetown on Thursday, for example, when a mother tested positive for Ebola after giving birth in their hospital unit, the country’s health ministry said. Love in the time of Ebola: How sex is keeping the outbreak alive 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Ebola also returned to Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, last week after being absent for 18 consecutive days, officials there said. Ebola cases not slowing in Guinea, Sierra Leone 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Ebola also returned to Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, last week after being absent for 18 consecutive days, officials there said. Ebola cases not slowing in Guinea, Sierra Leone 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The capital, Freetown, had gone without any new cases since May 29. New Ebola cases frustrate hopes of defeating the virus in Sierra Leone 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Sierra Leone has recorded two new cases of Ebola in Freetown in the past few days, disproving the assumption that the capital city had already defeated the deadly virus, officials said on Monday. Ebola returns to Sierra Leone capital after three-week gap 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Ebola returned to Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, this week after being absent for 18 consecutive days, officials there said. Liberians still face travel headaches even after Ebola 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Ebola returned to Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, this week after being absent for 18 consecutive days, officials there said. Liberians still face travel headaches even after Ebola 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Oliver Johnson has been leading a small team on the frontline of the Ebola response at Connaught Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital Freetown. Ebola nurse Will Pooley gets MBE honour - BBC News 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z "This is worrisome because we had already closed all Ebola quarantine structures in Freetown since we had gone for weeks without a case," Sidi Yahya Tunis, a spokesman for Sierra Leone’s Ebola response, told Reuters. New Ebola cases frustrate hopes of defeating the virus in Sierra Leone 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Health officials said the first case in Freetown since May 29 was a fisherman who caught the hemorrhagic fever from his girlfriend in the northern district of Port Loko. Ebola returns to Sierra Leone capital after three-week gap 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Ebola entered the country in May and reached the capital city, Freetown, in July. Latest Ebola data rule out rapid mutation 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The worker was volunteering in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, and on May 7, the volunteer flew from Freetown, Sierra Leone to Rome, stopping in Casablanca, Morocco. Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola in Italy 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z A recent infection in the Moa Wharf township of Freetown, the capital, led police to put it into quarantine; when seven of its residents fled, they were chased across the city. After the plague 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “They would have been arrested and released more as a deterrent,” said O. B. Sisay, who directs operations at the National Ebola Response Center in Freetown. Ebola Researchers Take New Look at Risk of Sexual Transmission 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z When Ebola exploded in Freetown a few weeks later, many did, along with scores of Sierra Leonean doctors, of whom there were only 200 in the whole country. Inside the Mind of Tony Blair: The Newsweek Interview 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Child soldiers waved them down at a rebel checkpoint outside Freetown. The man admired by presidents and warlords 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Palo Conteh, the head of the NERC, told the AFP news agency that the curfew would take place across the Western Area of Sierra Leone, a part of the country that includes the capital, Freetown. Sierra Leone announces Ebola curfew 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Head teacher Sia M'Bayo joins the conversation in Freetown and tells the School Report team in Jersey that in her school of around 300 pupils, six have lost both parents. Ebola means 'school is not safe' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Government troops surrounded Mr Sam-Sumana's home in the capital, Freetown, on Saturday. Sierra Leone vice-president sacked 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z After meeting the president and his staff, and a tour of Parkinson’s Freetown Ebola response centre, Blair’s convoy drove on to the National Stadium. Inside the Mind of Tony Blair: The Newsweek Interview 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Last month, for example, a spike of 20 cases erupted in the fishing village of Aberdeen near Freetown, possibly due to an unsafe burial. As Ebola eases, Sierra Leone still struggles to recover 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z As night fell on Freetown, he said he would remain in hiding and not return to his residence because he did not feel safe there. Sierra Leone vice president says requested asylum at U.S. embassy 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z But for 14-year-old Theresa, who lives on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, nearly a whole school year has gone by without seeing her friends. Ebola means 'school is not safe' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Embassy in Freetown after soldiers surrounded his residence on Saturday following his expulsion from the ruling party last week. World digest: March 14, 2014 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z “What have we got in Freetown at the moment?” Inside the Mind of Tony Blair: The Newsweek Interview 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z LOKOMASAMA, Sierra Leone — This time of year, traders usually are busy buying rice and other foodstuffs from towns in the swampy inland valleys north of Freetown, the capital of this poor country. As Ebola eases, Sierra Leone still struggles to recover 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Sierra Leone's Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana said he had requested asylum at the U.S. embassy in Freetown after soldiers surrounded his residence on Saturday following his expulsion from the ruling party last week. Sierra Leone vice president says requested asylum at U.S. embassy 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z The virus is still widespread in Sierra Leone, which recorded 81 new cases in the week to March 1, including 26 in the capital Freetown. Missing sprinter from Sierra Leone sleeping rough in London 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Ebola is still far from eradicated in Sierra Leone, which recorded 81 new cases, including 26 in the capital Freetown. Liberia releases last Ebola patient 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In June, aid workers in Freetown were saying they would leave if the disease hit the capital. Inside the Mind of Tony Blair: The Newsweek Interview 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “The new infections in Aberdeen near Freetown have spread up quickly in Bombali in the north, where a whole village has been quarantined.” As Ebola eases, Sierra Leone still struggles to recover 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The Saint George Foundation Orphanage in the capital, Freetown, is now in quarantine, with more than 20 children and seven staff in lock-down. Fears for future of Ebola orphanage 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Both were assigned to work at a hospital in Freetown. Fatal fallout 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In January, MSF opened a clinic in the outskirts of Freetown that specializes in care for pregnant women with Ebola. Maternal health: Ebola’s lasting legacy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z With outriders racing ahead, it took 20 minutes to cross Freetown, a bustling seaside city of wooden houses, tin roofs and street side markets. Inside the Mind of Tony Blair: The Newsweek Interview 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z A local politician announced on the radio that two 21-day incubation cycles had passed with no new infections in his Freetown neighborhood. Nearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The government in the capital, Freetown, said it was gravely concerned about the new cases. S Leone vice-president in quarantine 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The spread of the disease to the capital cities of Monrovia and Freetown caused an upsurge. Ending the Ebola Outbreak 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In Freetown, the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, the biggest public maternity hospital has been running on skeleton staff for much of the outbreak. Maternal health: Ebola’s lasting legacy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z He had worked for an orphanage run by a UK charity on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Ebola kills man who helped orphans 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Her son had refused to go to the hospital in Freetown out of fear, she said. Nearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The orphanage was set up in 2004 on the outskirts of Freetown, and, until the Ebola outbreak, was mainly concerned with rescuing street children. Sierra Leone orphanage quarantined 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Sierra Leone was forced to quarantine a fishing community in the capital Freetown after the discovery of a cluster of five new cases. Liberia's Children Go Back To School But Ebola Is Not Over Yet 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z New Ebola quarantine in Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone imposed a quarantine in a fishing district of the capital city, Freetown, after at least five new Ebola cases were confirmed there, an official said Saturday. World digest: Feb. 14, 2015 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z We were locked down while my wife stayed in Freetown. Valentines's Day in the Ebola heartlands 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Two wooden boats carrying three sick fishermen arrived at a small wharf in Freetown in early February, cutting short a two-week trip. Nearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Our Freetown correspondent says that Sierra Leone last week recorded 62 cases of Ebola and 52 deaths related to the disease. Sierra Leone orphanage quarantined 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Dahl, of the CDC, said medical professionals had always feared that Conakry “could become the next Monrovia or Freetown,” referring to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone, respectively. Guinea, where the Ebola crisis began, is hopeful the outbreak is ending 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z In the hardest-hit places, such as Monrovia and Freetown, people are returning to daily routines, and the curfews and no-touching policies that took root during the crisis have begun to ease. The new Ebola target number: Zero cases 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Previously I would take my lady to a beach of her choice around Freetown and eat the food she had prepared and I would surprise her with a gift. Valentines's Day in the Ebola heartlands 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z There are about 800 UK military personnel in Sierra Leone, where they built a hospital complex just outside the capital Freetown, where Save the Children operates a treatment centre. Medal plan for UK Ebola aid workers 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “It was slightly too early,” Freetown Mayor Franklyn Bode Gibson said Tuesday. Ebola: Sierra Leone officials criticize travel relaxation 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Freetown Mayor Franklyn Bode Gibson said Tuesday the decision was made "too early." Ebola: Sierra Leone officials criticize travel relaxation 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Muller’s pictures document the battle fought by medical workers, body collectors, and burial teams to bring the crisis ravaging the Freetown and country, under control. The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z In Sierra Leone, incidences of Ebola have dropped to their lowest levels since August, though there are still hot zones like the country’s capital of Freetown. Doctors Without Borders Sees Fewer New Ebola Cases 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Of the 145 cases reported across all affected countries last week, more than 100 were in that region, which includes the capital Freetown. Falling Ebola cases 'turning point' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Surgical care in Sierra Leone is now at a standstill, says Andy Leather, director of the King’s Centre for Global Health at the college and a surgeon who worked with Salia in Freetown. Ebola Epidemic Takes a Toll on Sierra Leone’s Surgeons 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In one home in the Devil Hole neighborhood outside Freetown where a nine-year-old boy was taken away by medics, relatives said he caught Ebola from malaria drugs handed out by the government. On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Port Loko is not far from Freetown , the capital of Sierra Leone and a global hub of maritime commerce. The secret to curing West Africa from Ebola is no secret at all 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Last week, there were 59 new reported cases in the capital, Freetown. Ebola cases declining in West Africa 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Among the 19 new cases countrywide, at least eight were in and around the capital of Freetown. Sierra Leone president: No new Ebola cases by the end of March 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z After witnessing the meltdown of the health system in Monrovia over the summer, responders in Freetown have worked hard to stave off a similar catastrophe. Surviving Ebola 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The same must now happen in Freetown, they say. On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Double standards between such settings as Atlanta and Freetown are also harming efforts to find all patients with Ebola, which hampers efforts to isolate them from uninfected family members. The secret to curing West Africa from Ebola is no secret at all 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The spirit of Freetown seems to be back with residents in the capital celebrating, albeit quietly, the low Ebola infection figures. Ebola cases declining in West Africa 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Freetown, the capital, saw 93 new cases last week and 11 out of 14 districts reported new cases. Ebola Could be ‘Levelling Off’ in Sierra Leone: WHO So far, the epicenter of the outbreak has been the capital, Freetown. Surviving Ebola 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z A November survey showed less than half of respondents in and around Freetown had comprehensive knowledge of Ebola - the nation's lowest level. On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Team 9 made its final journey of the day to Kingtom cemetery just outside Freetown city centre. Ebola: A day with the burial team 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z She originally left Freetown in Sierra Leone on Sunday 28 December and made her way to Glasgow after stopping at Casablanca in Morocco and London's Heathrow. Proper checks in place for Ebola - PM 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z The Moroccan Ministry of Health has also been tracing passengers who were on the first Royal Air Maroc flight, into Casablanca from Freetown in Sierra Leone, as a precautionary measure. Ebola flights' UK passengers traced 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z As I am writing this, Sierra Leone is experiencing high rates of new infections, with hotspots both in the capital, Freetown, and in rural districts. Ebola Survivor Rick Sacra: Why I’m Going Back to Liberia in the New Year 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z "In Freetown, many live roaming lives so the possibility of transmitting correct messages is lower than in rural districts," said British anthropologist Paul Richards, who has 30 years of experience in Sierra Leone. On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Tulip Mazumdar spent the day with one of them, the Sierra Leone Red Cross Burial Team 9 in the capital Freetown. Ebola: A day with the burial team 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z I sent a text message to an Indian doctor who is a friend of mine in Freetown at around 03:00 am. Covering Ebola from the front line 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z All passengers on that flight had been screened before they left Freetown and on their arrival in Casablanca, PHE said. Ebola flights' UK passengers traced 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z After all, the main slogan in Freetown, the capital, these days is A.B.C. — avoid body contact. Ebola Ravages Economies in West Africa 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Freetown's main Kingtom cemetery has been expanded and highly contagious bodies are buried in deep graves within 24 hours according to strict protocols to prevent transmission. On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The team got its first call from an area called Wellington, where Freetown recorded its first case of Ebola in July. Ebola: A day with the burial team 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Local media said she had been working in the Kerry Town Ebola treatment center outside Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Nurse Becomes First Ebola Victim Diagnosed in Britain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Sheik Umar Khan, head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone, poses for a picture in Freetown, June 25, 2014. Ten World Figures Who Died in 2014 Freetown does not have a single working traffic signal, and now legions of the unemployed and youths out of school thicken the streets while foreign tourists stay far away. Ebola Ravages Economies in West Africa 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z It has proved harder to change attitudes in Freetown than in rural areas, despite a high case density there of one in around 300 people – a factor that would normally increase awareness. On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z On February 22nd, 1845 the HMS Eclair, a British naval steamer tasked with interrupting the slave trade along the western coast of Africa, made port in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Ebola outbreak was political — just like every disease outbreak 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Sierra Leone announced on December 17th that it would conduct house-to-house searches in Freetown, the capital, to find hidden Ebola sufferers. After the passing 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Now Ebola is spreading fastest in Sierra Leone’s Western Area, which includes the capital of Freetown. Sierra Leone bans Christmas parties amid Ebola 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The authorities in Freetown recently announced the arrests of “chlorine fraudsters,” men who were selling fake chlorine powder that looked like the stuff used to disinfect boots and hands. Ebola Ravages Economies in West Africa 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “Most people turn up at Ebola treatment centers thinking that they have Ebola, when actually they have malaria,” said Patrick Robataille, Doctors Without Borders field coordinator in Freetown. Malaria killing thousands more than Ebola in West Africa 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z November: An aid worker carries the corpse of a seven-month-old baby who died in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Crimea to Liberia: 2014 in 12 Pictures The most recent sermon given by the archbishop was earlier this month at a cathedral in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, which is in the grip of the deadly Ebola outbreak. Archbishop of Canterbury has pneumonia 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z A case study from the Freetown area of Sierra Leone also appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, showing a much lower case fatality rate than previously reported. The Ebola epidemic is slowing in Africa, but it's not yet controlled 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z At first glance, life seems unchanged in Freetown, with most shops open and the streets flowing with a steady current of commerce. Ebola Ravages Economies in West Africa 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z He said a second distribution is planned in Freetown and western areas most affected by Ebola. Malaria killing thousands more than Ebola in West Africa 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z At an orphanage just outside Freetown in Sierra Leone, the Archbishop of Canterbury looks totally at ease as he not only watches, smiling, but takes part as the children sing to greet him. 'Super-astute' Welby faces big challenges 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In Devil’s Hole, a rural village on the outskirts of Freetown, I accompany two surveillance officers as they respond to an alert. Ebola Dragnet Has Lots of Holes 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres limits the time local and international staff spend in the red zone of its facility to about one hour. Exhausted Sierra Leone Medics Battle Ebola in the "Red Zone" 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z But Frieden said that if the global response remains strong, Freetown and the western parts of the country “should see a significant decrease in cases” within the next few weeks. CDC director Frieden cites progress, challenges in Ebola fight after W. Africa trip 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Sierra Leone has also been struggling, Dr. Frieden said, noting that many health workers at Connaught Hospital in the capital, Freetown, have died of Ebola and that the hospital is still “largely closed.” C.D.C. Head Says Fight on Ebola Will Be Long 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, people hauled tubs of soda, sacks of cement, bananas, melons, trousers, plastic pipes — an entire economy carried on the tops of heads. Ebola Should Be Easy to Treat 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z In Freetown, Sierra Leone’s vibrant and crowded capital city, Rogers practiced in a storefront office on a busy commercial street. Sierra Leone’s crisis deepens as doctors die of Ebola 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Of the three impoverished countries worst hit by the outbreak, Sierra Leone now has the most cases and the numbers are rising fastest; roughly half are in Freetown. Exhausted Sierra Leone Medics Battle Ebola in the "Red Zone" 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Earlier this week officials in Sierra Leone began house-to-house searches in the capital Freetown to find hidden cases of Ebola. Ebola kills top Sierra Leone doctor 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z But he said efforts to fight the disease in Freetown were being scaled up, and cases should decrease significantly in the next few weeks. C.D.C. Head Says Fight on Ebola Will Be Long 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z "In the last month or so when I went into Freetown for supplies, I started to see more of the Ebola response teams, with the full yellow bio-hazard suits," he said. 'Sierra Leone has become part of me' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z During my subsequent visits to Freetown with volunteer groups from Lawrence University, Rogers took time from his busy schedule to meet my pre-med students. Sierra Leone’s crisis deepens as doctors die of Ebola 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Health officials are alarmed by the widespread transmission in Freetown, which is similar to an earlier spread in the Liberian capital Monrovia now slowly being brought under control. Health Teams Scour Sierra Leone Capital in Drive to Contain Ebola 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Sierra Leone has repeatedly quarantined hot spots and once locked down the entire country to ferret out the sick, but infections continue to rise and the disease is now whipping around Freetown and its surroundings. House searches for Ebola in Sierra Leone capital 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He held prayers at the Anglican Cathedral in Freetown. Welby 'overwhelmed' by Ebola survivors 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In a statement Tuesday, President Ernest Bai Koroma said officials will begin a house-to-house search Wednesday for sick people in the Western Area, which includes Freetown. Sierra Leone to search for Ebola cases in capital 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The mandate will deny people who live in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, from travelling outside the city to celebrate the holidays. Sierra Leone Bans Christmas Festivities to Limit Ebola Spread Russell Macleod, a British military consultant with the surveillance team in the Western command and control center in Freetown, told Reuters they received a record number of alerts this morning. Health Teams Scour Sierra Leone Capital in Drive to Contain Ebola 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z We had no way to get the other 100 kilometers on the road to Freetown because it was warlord territory. Photographer Michel du Cille: ‘This is what we do.’ 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z "We want to get sick people out of their homes and take them to treatment centers, more of which we will be opening next week," Conteh said in Freetown. Sierra Leone to ban Christmas parties to curb Ebola spread 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Foday Sahr, one of the clinicians leading the trial in the capital, Freetown, expects to have results from 100 patients by early January. Donating the cure 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Through ignorance, lack of prompt diagnosis and the movement of people, it spread and took hold in the teeming cities of the region—especially Monrovia and Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone. Exorcising the ghostly fever 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z An encounter in the Devil's Hole neighborhood just outside Freetown showed why the program was vital. Health Teams Scour Sierra Leone Capital in Drive to Contain Ebola 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Sierra Leone is hardest hit in its capital, Freetown, WHO reports. Ebola Rages on in Sierra Leone With Over 1,000 New Cases 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z For several weeks, most of the new infections have been showing up in and around Freetown. Sierra Leone to ban Christmas parties to curb Ebola spread 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The deadly virus is spreading particularly in Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown and Port Loko "where there is a need for a much more intense response", said Nabarro, a veteran public health expert. Ebola Still Spreading in Western Sierra Leone and Guinea's forest 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z In Freetown hundreds of unpaid contact tracers besieged the health ministry. Exorcising the ghostly fever 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The 89-year-old Freetown native, who lives south of Seymour, is a World War II veteran. S. Indiana WWII vet keeps going despite setbacks 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Nothing, though, has raised more eyebrows than the new Kerry Town Ebola clinic, about a half-hour’s drive from the capital, Freetown. As Ebola Rages, Poor Planning Thwarts Efforts 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z At least more than five areas in the far west and far east of Freetown will be particularly targeted where epidemiologists say sick people still refuse to report to treatment centers. Sierra Leone to ban Christmas parties to curb Ebola spread 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Every day, in Freetown and nearby Port Loko, suspected Ebola victims call the country’s emergency hotline requesting ambulances that never come. U.S. is weighing more aid to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone Top United Nations Ebola bosses gave an upbeat press conference in Freetown, Liberia, on Monday that contrasted sharply with the new MSF report. Obama demands $6bn for Ebola fight 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z He was working at the 34 Military Hospital in Freetown until he volunteered for duty at Hastings. Sierra Leone doctor who got Ebola is not relenting 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “Everybody knows there are huge gaps,” said Ibrahim Tommy, a human rights campaigner in Freetown. As Ebola Rages, Poor Planning Thwarts Efforts 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Arriving at an Ebola treatment centre outside Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, I heard celebratory voices singing and clapping: three survivors of the disease were preparing to leave. Ebola: An eyewitness account from Sierra Leone 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Several of Freetown’s biggest slums have been hit particularly hard. U.S. is weighing more aid to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone Every day the Ebola burial teams collect about 60 bodies from around Freetown. More economic woe for Ebola nations 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z For weeks it has been the same here in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Changing behaviour to tackle Ebola 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Just about every important building in Freetown — hotels, banks, government offices — is now manned by a guard with an infrared thermometer and a bucket of diluted bleach for a mandatory hand wash. Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Health officials are congratulating themselves: “The global response has successfully turned this crisis around,” Anthony Banbury, head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response, told a press conference in Freetown today. Ebola: An eyewitness account from Sierra Leone 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z In Sierra Leone, however, the capital of Freetown remains the worst-affected area. Ebola Cases in Sierra Leone Will 'Soon Eclipse' Liberia 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z From there Ebola spread to Sierra Leone's capital Freetown where overcrowded living conditions and fluid population movements helped it to spiral further out of control. Tracing the Ebola outbreak 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z But to understand why that is not happening, all you have to do is drive to any of the impoverished suburbs of Freetown. Changing behaviour to tackle Ebola 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z In Freetown last week, some surveillance workers — the emergency medical workers to suspected cases — refused to work, demanding back pay, which added to the problems of dispatching ambulances. Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z But the number of cases is still rising in some areas in Sierra Leone, including Freetown, and there are still not enough treatment beds for everyone who needs them in this country. Ebola: An eyewitness account from Sierra Leone 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Sierra Leone reported 83 new confirmed cases in a single day, including 31 in the capital Freetown. Sierra Leone official: Ebola worst could be over 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z She said the hospital has a specially dedicated ambulance to take Ebola patients to treatment in Freetown. Cape missionaries breach Africa lockdown via radio 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z She had been taken the next day to a hospital in Freetown. Changing behaviour to tackle Ebola 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Britain’s Department for International Development said more than 30 NHS staffers, including general practitioners and nurses, left Saturday for Freetown. UK volunteers fly to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Britain's Department for International Development said more than 30 NHS staffers, including general practitioners and nurses, left Saturday for Freetown. UK volunteers fly to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Around 30 GPs, nurses, psychiatrists and emergency medicine consultants are being sent to the West African country's capital, Freetown. NHS staff to fly out to fight Ebola 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, 40 people in Freetown and the surrounding area called the government’s emergency response number asking for transport to treatment centers. Six months after Ebola appeared, Sierra Leone still lacks beds for patients When he arrived in Freetown, he gave it to another doctor who was staying in my hotel. Q&A with a CDC Doctor Fighting Ebola 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It said that about 168 new confirmed cases of the deadly disease occurred in a single week in Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown recently, the Associated Press reported. Health Highlights: Nov. 20, 2014 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Sierra Leone is particularly hard-hit now, with dozens of new cases reported weekly in the capital, Freetown. Liberian couples marry, a sign of less Ebola fear 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z “He taught me that, as a doctor, you never stop learning,” Smith said Monday evening in Freetown, where news of Salia’s death was broadcast on the radio. Death of second Ebola patient in U.S. shows need for early, accurate tests, experts say The closest treatment center with consistently available beds is eight hours from Freetown. Six months after Ebola appeared, Sierra Leone still lacks beds for patients But in -areas around Freetown—the capital of Sierra Leone—cases are still on the rise. Q&A with a CDC Doctor Fighting Ebola 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z |
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