While the outbreak has now reached four countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone account for more than 60 percent of the deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak that emerged in ...

Sierra Leone and Liberia are both post-conflict countries, still recovering after roughly a decade of two unrelated (though not entirely separate) civil wars that dragged on until 2002 and 2003 ...

On Tuesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report stating that a worst-case scenario for the disease could bring the number of infected in Liberia and Sierra Leone to 1 ...

Today’s map comes from the World Health Organization. It shows the number of days each district of Sierra Leone has gone since the last reported case of ebola. The magic number here is 42. This is ...

Police and soldiers in Sierra Leone blockaded rural areas hit by the deadly Ebola virus on Thursday, a senior officer said, after neighbouring Liberia declared a state of emergency to tackle the ...

Liberia and Sierra Leone trucked in soldiers to quarantine whole sections of their respective nations on Thursday, a dramatic response to the collapse of hospitals and clinics in the most Ebola- ...

Ebola-ravaged countries are taking a more radical approach to containing the epidemic: Liberia and Sierra Leone have enlisted soldiers to block off sections of the country in a forceful effort to ...

Sierra Leone and Liberia also faced up to the atrocities of the wars, at least to some degree. Both held Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs), which heard from both victims and perpetrators.

Liberia has over the years made significant progress after conducting at least four credible presidential and legislative elections. Unlike the peaceful transition in Liberia, Sierra Leone has ...