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Shikhar Dhawan and Parthiv Patel are the two openers out there in the middle. Henry davids with the new ball. Titans...

28 Sept 2013 4:20 PM IST

New Ebola virus found in Sierra Leone. (Photo: AFP)

New Ebola virus found in Sierra Leone

Researchers are now working with the Sierra Leone government to determine whether any humans were infected.

27 July 2018 1:24 PM IST

The challenge is to eliminate female genital mutilation, but not the Bondo culture. (Photo: AFP)

Tribal traditions still prevalent in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone's secret societies mark bodies and minds.

5 Aug 2019 12:04 PM IST

Some 28,000 people were infected with Ebola in the outbreak which began in late 2013 and continued through last year, killing more than 11,000 people mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Photo: AFP)

17 deaths reported in Congo as Ebola outbreak confirmed

It is the ninth time Ebola has been recorded in the central African nation, whose eastern Ebola river gave the deadly...

9 May 2018 8:29 AM IST

Mudslides and torrential flooding has killed many people in and around Sierra Leones capital early Monday following heavy rains, with many victims thought to be trapped in homes buried under tons of mud.

Sierra Leone mudslides: Death toll now up to 450 as rescuers search...

Burials have begun in a cemetery that holds victims of the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak that killed thousands in the West...

19 Aug 2017 12:43 PM IST

In this photo taken from video footage, Sierra Leones President Ernest Bai Koroma hands a diamond during a meeting with delegates of Kono district, where the gem was found, at the presidential office in Freetown, Sierra Leone. (Photo: AP)

706-carat diamond unearthed by pastor in Sierra Leone

The diamond was presented to President Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday before being locked in Freetown's central bank...

17 March 2017 11:50 AM IST