Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by providing arms and ammunition to rebels during neighbor Sierra Leones ten-year civil war. However, the judges ruled that the prosecution faile

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Sierra Leone to Sell Multi-million Dollar Diamond to Help Poor Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by selling a large uncut diamond. It is believed to be one of the largest diamonds in the world. The public sale w

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AS IT IS - Child Soldiers in Africa Hello, Im Steve Ember. Today we take you to Africa. First stop Sierra Leone, where the Child Soldiers Initiative is working to prevent children from being forced into armed military service. Next, to South Africa,

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JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight: A new PBS documentary shines a light on the oppression of women and girls worldwide. Half the Sky airs in two parts over two nights, starting this evening. It's based on a book of the same name by New York Times co

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Goats Get a Capitol Hill Job While members of the U.S. Congress are on vacation this month, work continues around the U.S. Capitol. Not by Congressional aides, though. A herd of goats was set loose in the Historic Congressional Cemetery to clean up a

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AS IT IS 2014-07-11 Health Ministers Meet in Emergency Ebola Conference 卫生部长召开埃博拉紧急会议 Health ministers from West African countries met in Ghana last week for emergency talks about the Ebola virus. The World Health Organizati

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AS IT IS 2015-04-25 Sierra Leone Dog Population Rising Because of Ebola Crisis 埃博拉导致塞拉利昂狗数量增加 The Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone has led to growing concern about another disease: rabies from wild dogs. Many owners fear their

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AS IT IS 2015-10-18 Sierra Leone Faces Child Marriage Issue 塞拉利昂等多国欲解决童婚问题 The organization Girls Not Brides is a partnership of more than 500 civil society groups from over 70 countries. They are working together to end c

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Supreme Court upholds criminal libel act, says law poses no immediate danger to journalists Fid Thompson | Freetown 28 December 2009 Sierra Leone's Supreme Court recently threw out a case aiming to repeal the country's criminal libel law, under which

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now the last in our series on Ebola in West Africa tonight, a look at new research to help stop or slow the next outbreak. The best hope may ultimately come from a new vaccine. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports, part of his s

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A 59-member Chinese team has arrived in Sierra Leone as China says it will continue to do its part to contain Ebola. The team will be based at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital, some 30 kilometers east of the capital city of Freetown. They w

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The president of Sierra Leone has ordered the entire country to stay at home for three days in a bid to stop the spread of Ebola. 塞拉利昂总统已下令要求全国民众闭门不出三天,以期阻止埃博拉病毒的传播。 Ernest Koroma

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- A critically ill doctor diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus infection in Sierra Leone arrived Saturday in the United States for treatment, the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he will undergo treatment, confir

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FREETOWN, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon on Friday assured the government and people of Sierra Leone of the UN commitment in helping Sierra Leone's fight against the Ebola disease. Addressing a press conference during his a

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LONDON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A British military healthcare worker arrived back into Britain from Sierra Leone for Ebola monitoring, Public Health England (PHE) confirmed on Saturday. PHE said the person, suffered a needle-stock injury when treating a

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In the remote village of Dugba-yeima, hundreds of people gather around a bonfire for fambul tok a special reconciliation ceremony where victims and offenders alike speak openly about the atrocities committed in their community during eleven years of

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The spread of Ebola 埃博拉的扩展 Bridges or walls 疏通还是围堵 A panicky response in the West may worsen conditions in west Africa 西方国家担心西非的疫情会进一步恶化 THE death toll from Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra

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A young man on camera names the person whos challenged him to dump the contents of a bucket over his head. But in a twist on the ice bucket challenge, this man is soon drenched in frothy, soapy water part of a campaign to raise awareness about Ebola

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LONDON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Britain has pledged a 2.5 million pounds (3.93 million U.S. dollars) fund to help children affected by Ebola. The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom said the fund will go to the United Nations I

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Religion in Sierra Leone 塞拉利昂的宗教 All things happily to all men 对他们而言都是幸福的事情 Sierra Leone bucks a west African trend by celebrating its religious tolerance 塞拉利昂通过颂扬它的宗教容忍来反对西非趋

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