OB Sisay describes the function of the national response centre, analyses external interventions and considers what the country learned from the crisis.
Following his look at the street level view of corruption in Sierra Leone, Jamie Hitchen examines how corruption and politics are increasingly intertwined.
Jamie Hitchen looks ahead to when Sierra Leone is declared Ebola free and asks how the country can build an adequate health care system that offers sufficient support and protection to patients and staff.
11 of Sierra Leone’s 123 medical doctors have perished fighting Ebola. Jamie Hitchen sheds light on the burden that has fallen on local health care staff and questions whether they have received enough support and recognition.
Paul Adams reports from the launch of the AfDB and World Bank joint programme to support post-Ebola recovery, where the emphasis was on Africa’s responsibility to its fragile states.
As schools closed because of Ebola get set to re-open in Sierra Leone, Jamie Hitchen looks at one group that won’t be returning to the classroom – pregnant teenagers – and the possible long-term implications.
Jamie Hitchen highlights findings from a damning report by Sierra Leone’s Auditor-General into government spending of funds allocated to fight Ebola between May and October 2014.
Jamie Hitchen investigates how Pujehun, a relatively poor district in southern Sierra Leone, succeed in declaring itself Ebola free in January 2015 and finds that youth were to the fore.
