Sierra Leone Outlaws Child Marriage with New Bill
Sierra Leone officially bans child marriage with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to end the practice that remains widespread.
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Sierra Leone officially bans child marriage with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to end the practice that remains widespread.
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people lost their homes in Freetown, the capital of Sierra
Leone.
Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno L.P. on Sunday
met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone Samura
Kamara.
Johnson & Johnson has begun a clinical trial of a two-shot Ebola vaccine in
Sierra Leone
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that began in 2012, and new research suggests it is one of
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Sierra Leone's 6 million people were told to stay home for
three days beginning Friday as the West African nation
attempted a final push to rid Ebola.
The decision to reopen schools is taken after a full cabinet
consultation, chaired by President Ernest Bai Koroma on
Wednesday.
Sierra Leone is banning any public Christmas celebrations as the
spiraling caseload of Ebola infections continues to spread alarm.
From the 350,000 residents living in Kono surveyed by the
WHO, a total of 119 cases of Ebola infection have been
confirmed.
Sierra Leone overtakes neighboring Liberia as the country with
the highest number of cases of the deadly Ebola virus, the WHO
says.
UK medical supplies have landed in Freetown to help thousands
of affected patients in the region.
About 1.2 million people in Sierra Leone will be isolated
temporarily.
Last week, the government ordered its 6 million citizens to
stay inside their homes for three days.
About 30,000 volunteers will visit houses to educate
residents and provide them with hand soap and to look for
patients or bodies hidden in houses.
Doctors Without Borders said that staging a quarantine will
only hinder Ebola victims from receiving proper medical
treatment.
The plan was announced following WHO's statement on the
staggering number of deaths that have been caused by the
Ebola outbreak.
The deaths have raised fears of an impending shortage of trained
medical staff in Sierra Leone.
The action was taken after the declaration Ebola plague
emergency that has killed more than 930 people in West Africa
this year.