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CLEAN : Chinese-funded harbour in Sierra Leone stirs environmental fears
Sierra Leoneans are protesting a planned industrial harbour in a lush village in the West African country over concerns the Chinese-financed project will destroy pristine rainforest and pollute the ocean (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio visits Freetown explosion site
Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio visits the site of a fuel tanker explosion which killed 98 people in the capital Freetown (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Sierra Leone president pays tribute to tanker explosion victims
The President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio expresses his condolences at a mass burial for 85 of the 115 people killed by a fuel tanker explosion in Freetown, saying, "We as a country, recommend all of the ones that passed to God the...
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Sierra Leone Civil War
CLEAN: Exterior shots of Indian UN soliders, armed with guns on patrol on 16th May 2000 in Daru, Sierra Leone.
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Street scene in a village in Sierra Leone during the Civil War
CLEAN: Exterior shots of people on streets in a village during ongoing Civil War on 24 October 2001 in Sierra Leone
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Emirates stop flights to Guinea; airport, street cleaning, Sierra Leone medical chief comment
Emirates Airlines suspended flights to Conakry on Saturday following the Ebola outbreak in Guinea.
Ebola has claimed more than 700 lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone this year, killing up to 90 percent of sufferers.
Health...
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Govt announces preventive measures to stop Ebola virus spreading to the Ivory Coast
The government of Ivory Coast, on Monday, announced measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
The measures include a ban on the national carrier, Air Ivory Coast, from flying to neighbouring countries affected by Ebola...
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SIERRA LEONE: PEACEFUL RALLY IS STAGED BY SOLDIERS
Natural Sound
A peaceful rally has been staged by the soldiers who seized control of Sierra Leone in a violent coup two weeks ago.
The country's borders have also been reopened, in an apparent attempt to gain international favour by the...
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SENEGAL: DAKAR: SIERRA LEONE EVACUEES ARRIVE
English/Nat
About 320 British, European Union and Commonwealth citizens have been evacuated from a tense Sierra Leone in the past few days.
Most of those airlifted out have been taken to Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
The evacuees say...
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WRAP Voting gets underway in country's first poll since civil war; ADDS opposition leader
1. Wide shot of vehicle carrying Ernest Bai Koroma, leader of the main opposition All People's Congress party, approaching
2. Koroma walking with supporters to voting tent
3. Koroma inside voting tent casting his vote
4. Close of...
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WRAP EU chief observer on Sierra Leone elections
1. Wide of hotel Binvu Mani
2. Wide of news conference by European Union (EU) election observation mission
3. Mid of speakers at news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marie-Anne Isler, EU Chief Observer:
"The 11th August 2007...
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Miss World contestants try their hand at modeling
AP Television
Johannesburg, South Africa November 28 2009
1. Wide Miss World contestants modeling for Miss World Top model
2. Mid pan down of contestants
3. Various contestants modeling
4. Cutaway panel of Miss World Top Model judges
5....
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GNS: WRAP Fighting + Taylor announces departure
1. Government militia men crouched in group on New Bridge
2. Machine gun being fired from technical (jeep with gun mount)
3. Technicals driving off
4. Militia man picking up second rifle and firing first rifle
5. Wounded militia man...
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UK - Evacuees arrive from Freetown
Nearly 400 Britons and other foreigners evacuated from Sierra Leone arrived in London early on Friday (30/5) aboard a plane chartered by the British Foreign Office.
The evacuees told of being robbed of all their possessions at gunpoint...
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INDIA: 1,600 PEACEKEEPERS INTO SIERRA LEONE
Eng/Hindi/Nat
Crack troops from an Indian army battalion honoured for bravery are being sent to Sierra Leone on Monday to join the United Nations peacekeeping effort.
The soldiers, numbering more than one-thousand-600, were involved in...
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GUINEA: UNHCR COMMISSIONER LUBBERS VISIT
English/Nat
The new U-N High Commissioner for refugees, Ruud Lubbers, arrived in Guinea on Saturday at the start of a nine-day West African tour.
On Sunday he visited two camps near the southwestern town of Kissidougou, where tens of...
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ISRAEL: WORLD DIAMOND COUNCIL MEETING
English/Nat
The World Diamond Council opened its inaugural meeting in Israel to discuss plans to eradicate the trade in so-called "conflict diamonds", mined by rebels in war zones like Angola or Sierra Leone to fund their cause.
The...
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GUINEA: REFUGEE CRISIS
English/Nat
The new U-N refugee chief said that Sierra Leone's brutal rebel army must also work to help end the refugee crisis that has left tens of thousands of people stranded in the dense forests of neighbouring Guinea.
U-N High...
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France and Belgium screening, co-discoverer of virus on crisis
French Health Minister Marisol Touraine visited the medical teams from Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday, a day before they are due to start checking the temperatures of passengers arriving on the daily flight from Guinea.
The controls...
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Streets quiet in Freetown as people mourn those who have died from the Ebola virus
The streets of Freetown were quiet and empty on Monday, as people in Sierra Leone were mourning those who have died after being infected with the Ebola virus.
Traffic was restricted and offices and businesses were shut down, as most of...
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US envoy to UN visits to highlight need for more international support
The US ambassador to the United Nations visited Guinea on Sunday as part of a tour of the three West African countries hit hardest by the Ebola outbreak.
Ambassador Samantha Power held talks in the Guinean capital Conakry with religious...
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Ministers attend ceremony to mark hand over of aid
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) on Wednesday donated more aid to Guinea in its attempt to fight the Ebola outbreak.
The aid included 100 motorcycles and eight vehicles.
According to UNICEF Representative in Guinea Doctor Mohamed...
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USA: US FORCES ARE POISED TO EVACUATE AMERICANS FROM SIERRA LEONE
English/Nat
U-S officials in Washington confirm that American forces are poised to evacuate more than 200 Americans from the west African nation Sierra Leone.
A Pentagon spokesman said other nationals may be included in the...
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Sierra Leone - Rebels Cause Terror
The military government of Captain Valentine Strasser in Sierra
Leone is still struggling to contain a rebel movement that has
been active since 1991. Peace talks were held this week in
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, involving the Organisation...