Freetown Gallery

A member of the clergy reads from the Bible to Ebola Patients in the recovery wing of the

A member of the clergy reads from the Bible to Ebola Patients in the recovery wing of the Hastings Ebola treatment centre in a neighbourhood in Freetown December 21, 2014. The rapid response team has arrived and the chaos is easing, but medics in a remote Sierra Leonean district are struggling to control a local Ebola outbreak when it's too late to nip it in the bud. A deployment of medical workers and equipment to Kono District has been the fastest so far in Sierra Leone, a country with nearly half the total Ebola cases,- under a strategy of tackling epidemic hotspots before they get too big. But officials say responses need to be yet faster to fight the fever that has killed more than 7,000 people across West Africa. REUTERS/Baz Ratner(SIERRA LEONE - Tags: HEALTH RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Boy with fishes, Sierra Leone

African boy with handful of five fishes freshly landed on Goderich Beach, Sierra Leone, West Africa Date: circa 1982

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

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Street scene, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Street scene with the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited, Cotton Department, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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