Dave Terry is a logistics advisor for GOAL at the Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone. Here he describes how he will spend his Christmas this year helping GOAL fight the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone.

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.

The spread of ebola seems to have stabilised in Guinea, one of three West African states worst-hit by the disease, but a lack of beds and resistance in affected communities means its advance continues elsewhere, the World Health Organisation said.

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.

Five eager young boys, many not even in their teens, are gathered around Abdul Rahman Tholeey as he shows them how to weld a section of gate.