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Sierra Leone has taken action to provide new legislation for climate change since 2019. [16] A $74 million International Development Association (IDA) grant (as well as investments) was given to support Sierra Leone in combatting climate change. [17] [18] Teaching legislature has also played a part in sustainability effort. [19]
According to the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center, Sierra Leone experienced a particularly wet rainy season, with the capital city of Freetown, in the Western Area of the country, experiencing 41 inches (1,000 mm) of rainfall from July 1, 2017, leading up to the mudslides – nearly tripling the area's seasonal average. [9]
Farming trainees who have been amputated during Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1991-2002, do warmup exercises before starting their day at the Farming on Crutches initiative in Freetown, Sierra ...
In Sierra Leone the number of midwives per 1,000 live births is 1 and the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women 1 in 21. [ 16 ] Since the Ebola outbreak of 2014/2015 , healthcare facilities have been associated with pain and death.
Sierra Leone lost three of its top doctors by the end of August to Ebola. [166] A fourth doctor, Dr. Olivette Buck, became ill with Ebola in September and died later that month. [167] Dr. Olivette Buck was a Sierra Leone doctor who worked in Freetown, who tested positive for Ebola on 9 September 2014, and died on 14 September 2014. [41]
Human rights in Sierra Leone are in a rather deplorable state, but have improved gradually since the end of its civil war in 2002. Among the major human-rights problems in Sierra Leone today, according to a 2011 U.S. State Department report, are "security force abuse and use of excessive force with detainees, including juveniles; harsh conditions in prisons and jails; official impunity ...
On 1 April, Sierra Leone confirmed its second case which had no history of travel or contact with the country's first case. [12] The government announced a 3-day lockdown starting on 5 April. [13] On 4 April, two more cases were confirmed and a further two on 5 April bringing the total to 6. [14]
The internet observatory NetBlocks noted that Sierra Leone experienced internet shutdowns for two hours in the afternoon and overnight. [1] Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh announced a nationwide curfew of 3 PM while the president was out of the country. [7] On Thursday, 11 August, the death toll increased. [8]