While Nigeria’s president has declared his country Ebola-free, 1.2-million people have been affected by a quarantine in Sierra Leone.
A United Nations-backed war-crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone will on Wednesday hand down its first verdict over atrocities during the African nation’s decade civil war in which 120Â 000 people died. The case involves three renegade soldiers-turned-rebels, allegedly supported by former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
A global initiative to end the trade in ”blood diamonds” has been a mixed success in war-ravaged Sierra Leone with a sharp rise in export earnings but illegal mining flourishing nonetheless.
Sierre Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah looked on Monday to rebuild his civil-war shattered country, after winning landmark elections.