Freetown (AFP) – Sierra Leone began a quarantine of more than one million people Thursday in the largest lockdown in west Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak, as world leaders met to discuss the crisis at the United Nations.The northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali were to be closed off along with the southern district of Moyamba — effectively sealing in around 1.2 million people.With the eastern districts of Kenema and Kailahun already under quarantine, more than a third of the population of six million, in five of the nation’s 14 districts, now finds itself unable to move freely.”The isolation of …read more
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