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The death toll from the fuel tanker explosion in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which occurred four days ago, increases to 115.
2021-11-9

Sierra Leone ends its nationwide 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. curfew that had been in place since July due to declining number of COVID-19 cases.
2021-09-13

The government of Sierra Leone decides to push for the abolition of capital punishment.
2021-05-12

The World Health Organization asks six African countries (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) to be on the alert for possible Ebola outbreaks after Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo reported new cases that signaled a resurgence of the outbreak.
2021-02-16

The World Health Organisation confirms a second new case of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.
2016-01-21

A person dies of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone hours after the WHO makes its declaration.
2016-01-14

Sierra Leone quarantines the Tonkolili district with more than half the country under lockdown and the official death toll in the country reaching 1,530 and roughly 7,109 infected.
2014-12-2

A Maine judge imposes limited restrictions, but rejects state officials' bid to quarantine nurse Kaci Hickox, who returned to the United States last week after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
2014-10-31

An outbreak of Ebola virus which has killed at least 59 people in Guinea continues its spread, entering Liberia and threatens to spread to Sierra Leone.
2014-03-24

A delegation of African leaders from Benin, Cape Verde, Kenya and Sierra Leone travels to Côte d'Ivoire to offer incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo an amnesty if he resigns from office.
2011-01-3