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With international response to the Ebola outbreak gathering pace, the United Nations says the country needs far more than it has lined up. Magdy Martinez-Soliman, the Assistant Secretary General in UNDP in charge of support to UN country offices, says the country needs 3,000 medics to be able to deal with the current outbreak. He sat with Politico for this interview:

Politico: Why are you here?

By Gen. Sir David Richards

I love Sierra Leone and it has been my great joy to visit the country many times since 2000 to see its steady progress. For countless years Britain and Sierra Leone have been partners for good, including most recently when British troops ended the civil war where torturous rebels murdered and brutalised innocents.

With Ebola wreaking havoc  in West Africa, assistance from international partners is crucial in dealing with the disease which has killed over 4,000 people in especially Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. One of those who have come in to the rescue is the International Rescue Committee whose Chief Executive Officer, former British Foreign Secretary David Milliband has been visiting the region. He gave his assessment to Politico while in Sierra Leone last week. 

By Ezekiel Nabieu

By Ezekiel Nabieu

There is hardly any occupation in the world that is without risks otherwise known as occupational hazards. Even primeval occupations like hunting and fishing had and are still having their own share of occupational hazards. One would have thought that with advances in science such hazards would have been minimized but this has not been the case.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Baba Kanu is an 11-year-old boy with a big ambition. It seems impossible for him to achieve his dream of becoming a banker because he hasn't had the best start in life like some of the famous bankers in the world.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

For three days the freedom of movement of the majority of citizens was curtailed - a new experience which most adults had not been through unless if they had come into conflict with the law. When you come to think of it no man living in an ordered society is wholly free. During that period there were no questions such as “Usai yu dae go”? or “Usai yu comot?” This is because there was a full house everywhere. While housewives were especially delighted, bars and restaurants were saddened.