A smooth tarmac road runs through the middle of Kigbal village. On the east side of it, perhaps thirty children stand clustered in the shade.
"We came to this side to be safe," says 14-year-old Mabinti Kamara, glancing at the mud homes across the road and a dark silhouette beneath a tree.
"A lot...
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Ebola is spreading up to nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone than two months ago, a report by the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) said.
On average, 12 new cases a day were seen in the rural areas surrounding Freetown in late October, compared with 1.3 cases in early September, the...
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The biggest news out of President Obama’s Afghanistan speech isn’t the 10,000 troops he’s withdrawing by the end of the year.
He wont send the remaining "surge" troops into the worst part of eastern Afganistan. He also says will will withdrawl another 23,000 tropps bt the end of next year. He...