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Navy medical ship departs with troops and supplies for Sierra Leone
A British naval medical ship left Falmouth in southern England for Sierra Leone on Friday to help in the battle to contain the outbreak of Ebola.
RFA Argus is carrying a crew of around 350 members of the armed forces, including sailors,...
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Sierra Leone- Self-proclaimed head of state Koroma
Sierra Leone's self proclaimed leader, Johnny Koroma, on Monday
(10/6) refuted accusations that his junta is planning "genocide"
against its opponents.
Speaking from his military headquarters in Freetown, Koroma also
claimed that the...
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Castro meets Sierra Leone president
1. Exterior of the Palace of the Revolution
2. Cuban flag
3. Cuban president Fidel Castro and Sierra Leone president Tejan Kabbah entering room
4. Kabbah and Castro shaking hands
5. Castro and Kabbah leaving room
6. Conference...
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Sierra Leone - Refugees Arrive From Liberia
A Nigerian merchant vessel, the Victoria Reefer, carrying more than one thousand sick and hungry refugees from the fighting in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, has been allowed to anchor just one mile off the Sierra Leonean capital,...
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GUINEA: UNCHR RUUD LUBBERS VISITS REFUGEE CAMPS
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U-N High Commissioner 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 thousands of Sierra...
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SIERRA LEONE: COUP LEADER KOROMA SPEAKS OF CRISIS IN COUNTRY
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Sierra Leone's coup leader Major Johnny Paul Koroma says his country has to find its own way out of its crisis and does not want any foreign intervention.
Speaking in the capital, Freetown, Koroma also warned that if ousted...
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Evidence of sexual abuse in refugee camp
1. Wide shot refugee camp with large hut being built
2. A woman with her daughter coming from the bush, carrying wood on their heads
3. Mid shot men standing next to frame of hut
4. Large bags of food aid
5. Red Cross logo on bag of of...
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Guinea - Foreigners evacuated from Sierra Leone
Hundreds of foreigners have been airlifted from the violence in
Sierra Leone. Marines from the United States helped with the evacuation of the civilians fleeing from the military coup against the elected
government of President Ahmed...
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SIERRA LEONE: FREETOWN: BRITISH TROOPS
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British soldiers have been evacuating foreign nationals from Sierra Leone and have taken control of the international airport there.
Over 300 British, European Union and Commonwealth citizens had been evacuated so far.
The...
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LIBERIA: MONROVIA: FOREIGNERS ARE PULLING OUT DESPITE A NEW CEASEFIRE
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A new cease-fire agreement has been reached in Liberia, which has been rocked by civil war.
The truce agreement was brokered by a visiting delegation of West African politicians and comes on the heels of a similar agreement...
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European Union foreign ministers arrive for talks; comments on Ebola
European Union nations are working to find one (b) billion euros to help fight Ebola in West Africa and streamline a common approach in dealing with the health crisis.
EU foreign ministers on Monday opened a week of talks so that their...
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SIERRA LEONE: UPDATE ON TRUCE
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A top rebel commander rejected a proclaimed cease-fire today in Sierra Leone, warning that his forces would intensify their assault on the capital if he is not allowed to meet with his imprisoned leader soon.
Civilians...
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Head of Ebola response centre condemns dumping of bodies by burial workers
An official in Sierra Leone on Wednesday criticised a group of striking burial workers who left the bodies of Ebola patients in public, describing it as an "utterly despicable act."
Because they are at such a high risk of infection - and...
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USA: WASHINGTON: SIERRA LEONE PROTEST
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On Wednesday protesters calling for an end to the diamond trade with areas of Sierra Leone demonstrated in front of the U-S State Department in Washington.
The demonstration comes in the light of the resurgence of violence...
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SIERRA LEONE: FREED UN TROOPS ARRIVE IN FREETOWN
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44 U-N peacekeepers, held hostage by the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, arrived in Freetown on Wednesday night after being freed.
Another eighty are said to have been moved to the Liberian border town of Foya to...
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SIERRA LEONE: REBELS LOYAL TO OLD REGIME STILL FIGHTING ECOMOG
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The leader of Sierra Leone's overthrown military junta fled the West African country on Sunday, leaving for neighbouring Liberia by boat.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian-led intervention force continued restoring law and order and...
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French President Hollande promises medical aid to Guinea to fight Ebola
France pledged to continue supporting Guinea in its fight against the Ebola virus on Monday, announcing it would set up a third medical facility in the country staffed by 25 French medical personnel.
French President Francois Hollande...
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Main candidates voting in presidential run off election
1. People lined up outside polling station
2. Military police monitoring security
3. Polling centre staff showing empty boxes just before centres open
4. Polling worker sealing ballot box
5. Close-up of box being sealed
6. Various...
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ITALY: CAPTIVE NUN SHOT IN SIERRA LEONE
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The head of the Rome-based news agency Missionary News Service in Rome has announced that rebels in the African nation of Sierra Leone shot some of their missionary hostages, killing a captive nun.
At least two other...
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SIERRA LEONE: AMPUTEES REBUILD THEIR LIVES
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When the Revolutionary United Front invaded the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, in January, thousands of people were killed as the rebels looted and burned houses.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the rebels' campaign of...
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Voting gets underway in the country's first poll since civil war
1. Wide of polling station people queuing
2. Medium of old women sitting on stool
3. Wide of woman in queue
4. Close of baby
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phileas Jeefu, voter:
"We are voting because it is time to change or to, kind of, the...
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Guinea - Overthrown countrymen
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, the overthrown President of Sierra Leone, said Tuesday (3/6) his patriotic countrymen were grateful for the intervention of Nigerian troops. Interviewed in Conakry, in Guinea, Kabbah said the troops were trying to...
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SIERRA LEONE: MAKENI: ECOMOG TROOPS TAKE CONTROL OF TOWN
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Amid fierce fighting, Nigerian-led West African peacekeepers took control of Sierra Leone's heavily fortified northern town of Makeni on Tuesday.
The advancing forces freed about 30 church missionaries and workers who had...
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SIERRA LEONE: SITUATION UPDATE: FRONTLINE
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A group of what appeared to be British troops were spotted near the Sierra Leone frontline town of Newton on Friday, along with Nigerian U-N peacekeepers.
The position was taken from the rebel Revolutionary United Front...