More than 200 bodies have been brought to a morgue in Sierra Leone's capital following heavy flooding and mudslides, officials said.

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Sierra Leone’s vice president has put himself in quarantine following the death from Ebola of one of his security guards.

Sierra Leone has imposed a quarantine in a fishing district of the capital city, Freetown, after at least five new Ebola cases were confirmed there, an official said today.

A nurse who contracted ebola after volunteering to help people in west Africa stricken with the deadly virus has chronicled the heartbreak she experienced while treating its victims.

An NHS worker who has been diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone is believed to be on the way to specialist facilities in London this morning.

Sierra Leone is planning a house-to-house search for hidden Ebola cases in the capital and surrounding areas in an effort to stem the disease’s rampant spread, the government announced.

I SPENT a month in Sierra Leone, at the front line of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

Mali has confirmed a new case of Ebola and said two more suspected patients are being tested, raising concern about a further spread of the disease which has already killed at least five people in the country.

A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in his native Sierra Leone has died in a US hospital.

A surgeon from Sierra Leone being treated for ebola in a Nebraska hospital on Saturday was critically ill after being airlifted back from Africa, medical officials said.

A doctor in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, dealing yet another blow to the country’s fight against the deadly outbreak.

I’ve lived in a tent in South Sudan for a year and spent hours at checkpoints in Iraq, but nothing prepared me for what ebola is doing in western Africa, writes Save the Children worker Sarah Murphy

Authorities in Sierra Leone said yesterday that another doctor there has tested positive for ebola, marking a setback for efforts to keep desperately needed health care workers safe in the West African country ravaged by the deadly virus.

Another doctor from Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, marking a setback for efforts to keep desperately needed health care workers safe.

Dozens of Ebola survivors have been discharged from a treatment centre near Sierra Leone’s capital and told they were virus-free.

The British nurse who survived Ebola will begin his second spell treating people infected by the deadly virus after returning to the country where he caught the infection.

The death rate in the current Ebola outbreak has increased to 70%, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official has said.

Considering the deadly nature of ebola, the killer disease now sweeping through west Africa, the sheer courage of people currently applying to join Goal in the fight against the epidemic is nothing short of astonishing.

Irishman Johnny McKinstry oversaw Sierra Leone’s rise to a top 50 place on Fifa’s rankings, despite Ebola ravaging the country. Then he was fired.

A British humanitarian worker in Sierra Leone has told of the country’s desperate bid to contain the deadly Ebola virus, as NHS staff prepare to travel to Africa to help tackle the outbreak.

Sierra Leone says a nationwide lockdown has revealed that an Ebola outbreak is worse than thought and ordered three more transmission hotspots to be cordoned off.

The UN is establishing an ebola crisis centre with a goal of stopping transmission in affected countries within six to nine months, the UN chief said, as the death toll from the outbreak surpassed 2,000 for the first time.

The United Nations is establishing an Ebola Crisis Centre with a goal of stopping transmission in affected countries within six to nine months, the UN chief said, as the death toll from the outbreak surpassed 2,000 for the first time.

British Ebola victim William Pooley told of Sierra Leone’s poverty and his brushes with the country’s political elite shortly before he was struck down by the potentially deadly virus.

Some of your recent letters (‘If HSE struggles with superbugs how could it ever tackle ebola?’) have blurred the realities of the ebola virus disease (EVD).

A leading physician in Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said.

A leading physician in Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said.

An Irish doctor heading for the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak has warned that the number of patients being seen at treatment centres does not reflect the true scale of the epidemic.

Fighters in Sierra Leone raped and killed Halimatu Jalloh’s sister during the country’s civil war, but last night the 27-year-old student felt the pain of her loss ease with the conviction of Charles Taylor, the Liberian leader who backed the rebels.

In a historic ruling, an international court today convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting brutal rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone in return for “blood diamonds”.

NAOMI Campbell’s bravery and selflessness in testifying at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor — for brave and selfless is clearly what she believes herself to be — may have been under-appreciated by the world at large but one woman would empathise with her.

A PUBLICAN abducted on a business visit to west Africa thanked the local police yesterday for freeing him from an armed gang.

Officials in Sierra Leone say at least 200 people have been killed in a cave-in at an unofficial gold mine.

FORMER Liberian president Charles Taylor called charges of war crimes against him “lies” as he took the stand for the first time at his landmark trial in The Hague.

BALLOT counting was under way in Sierra Leone last night, a day after presidential and legislative elections seen as a test of whether the African nation has emerged from its bloody past.

Dublin Fianna Fáil MEP Eoin Ryan has joined a seven-strong team of European observers at today’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone.

A boat capsized and sank off the northern coast of Sierra Leone, and at least two people died while another 21 were missing, officials said today.

At least 21 people were missing after a boat carrying passengers along Sierra Leone’s northern coast capsized, police said today.

A UN-backed court today convicted three former members of a Sierra Leone junta for war crimes in the country's brutal, decade-long civil war.

A helicopter ferrying passengers to Sierra Leone’s main airport crashed, bursting into flames and killing at least 20 people, radio stations and a witness at the airport said.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor goes on trial today for allegedly orchestrating unspeakable atrocities in Sierra Leone’s bloody civil war.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor left Sierra Leone today, a war crimes court spokesman said, apparently heading to The Hague, Netherlands, for a long-awaited trial on charges of allegedly backing brutal rebels in Sierra Leone.