Fear and Desperation in Sierra Leone

From AllAfrica Blog Fri Sep 19 2014, 16:14:01

[Thomson Reuters Foundation]Kamanda is a youth advocate for Plan International, and lives in Port Loko in the north of Sierra Leone. In this blog, he describes the situation in a country gripped by Ebola, and assesses the reaction to the government's announcement of a three-day lockdown, which is in place from Friday 19 to Monday 22 September.

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