A second case of Ebola has emerged in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over.

Ebola has been eliminated in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone – where British nurse Pauline Cafferkey caught Ebola – is just hours from being declared free of the disease.

Trials for an Ebola vaccine have gotten underway in Sierra Leone.

Health authorities quarantined hundreds of people in northern Sierra Leone after a 16-year-old girl died of ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission, the first confirmed death from the virus in the district for nearly six months.

Irish soldiers who have been working in Ebola-stricken parts of Sierra Leone will return to Ireland today.

Sierra Leone's 1.8 million children have begun returning to school, more than eight months after classes were shut to stop the spread of Ebola.

Guinea has closed its border with Sierra Leone as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola, an official said.

Sierra Leone’s six million people are being confined to their homes for three days from today as the West African nation resorts again to a sweeping shutdown in a final push to stamp out Ebola.

A UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola.

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Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has told a war crimes court in The Hague that he played no part in forming the guerrilla force that invaded Sierra Leone in the early 1990s.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor gave evidence in his own defence at his war crimes trial today, saying the case against him is built on lies.

Charles Taylor will begin his defence today against charges that he led rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered, raped and mutilated villagers in a brutal terror campaign during the country’s civil war.