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A few people are seen in Freetown during a three-day nationwide lockdown on September 21, 2014. In an attempt to curb the spread of the Ebola virus, people in Sierra Leone were told to stay in their homes.

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Panic in Sierra Leone amid fresh gunfire following attacks on military barracks

A general view of Freetown on June 19, 2023. Sierra Leoneans will vote in a general election on Saturday, with President Julius Maada Bio hoping to secure a second term despite a crippling economic crisis which has sparked deadly protests. The west African country, which never fully recovered economically from a 1991-2002 civil war and the Ebola epidemic a decade later, was further pummelled by the Covid pandemic and fallout from the war in Ukraine. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sierra Leone military barracks foiled attack ignites fears over coup attempt

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‘I felt that Africans could also be part of this’: Meet the Kenyan stargazer inspiring children to look to the sky

Although generally peaceful, the electoral period saw clashes between rival factions in which two people were killed.