By Fatou Wurie Read the original piece on Huffington Post here THE BACKGROUND YOU ARE MOST AWARE OF – 11 YEARS OF WAR IN SIERRA LEONE: Birth. I choose to not tell my protected friends that I was born in a small house in a small village nestled in the small corners of Africa. I […]

Read published article here: on Qz.com BY Amba Mpoke-Bigg Nurse Mariatu Fofana says she should have known better than to touch and hug her father as he lay dying at his home near the capital of Sierra Leone, but she has paid an unbearable price for her error. Ebola had been raging for months by […]

This article was originally published on The Journalist. Read the original article here. Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease. It’s marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids. The countries of Sierra Leone and Guinea on Africa’s West Coast have been especially hard hit with about 4 […]

  After more than a year of unimaginable suffering, West Africa looks cautiously ahead to the end of the most devastating outbreak of the Ebola virus the world has ever known. Yet the road for the three worst affected countries is still one of tough challenges. Whilst Liberia is celebrating a second round of being […]

         

Schools are closed. The economy has declined. Hospitals are refusing people who are sick for fear of ebola. Women are especially affected because they tend to be the breadwinners for the family. We no longer have long hours of work. Our rights are limited and the future of our children is at stake. -Miata Kiazolu […]