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Sierra Leone has given anti-malaria drugs to more than 2.5 million people

Sierra Leone has given anti-malaria drugs to more than 2.5 million people

Sierra Leone has given anti-malaria drugs to more than 2.5 million people in Ebola-affected areas and significantly reduced the number of patients with fever that might have been mistaken for Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.Malaria symptoms – fever, headache, aching joints – are similar to those of Ebola in its early […]

Sierra Leone football rocked by internal power wrangles

Sierra Leone football rocked by internal power wrangles

Sierra Leone football has again been rocked by internal power wrangles following a decision taken by members of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) to dissolve the executive committee led by Isha Johansen.A nine-man interim body, headed by an owner of a premier league club and veteran football administrator Alhaji Unisa Alim Sesay, has been […]

Ebola fighters are Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Ebola fighters are Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Foday Gallah saw the sick child was distressed and felt he had to do something. So he picked the kid up to comfort him. And with that act of kindness, the 37-year-old ambulance supervisor in Monrovia, Liberia, contracted Ebola himself.“Of course, he got vomit all over him and that’s how he got Ebola,” said photographer […]

Christmas cancelled in Sierra Leone over Ebola fears

Christmas cancelled in Sierra Leone over Ebola fears

Freetown – Sierra Leone said on Friday it was banning any public Christmas celebrations as the spiralling case-load of Ebola infections continues to spread alarm. Soldiers are to be deployed to the streets throughout the festive period, forcing people venturing out into the streets back indoors, the government’s Ebola response unit said.-AfricaMetro Please follow and […]

Zimbabawean born, Ebola survivor Ian Crozier speaks for the first time

Zimbabawean born, Ebola survivor Ian Crozier speaks for the first time

A US-based doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and survived after weeks of intensive treatment in Atlanta is speaking out for the first time in an interview published on Sunday. Ian Crozier – who until now has remained anonymous in news accounts of his treatment, at his request – said he cannot remember the […]

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