Teen's killing highlights crime wave in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

21 August 2015 - 15:25
By Reuters

Senior ministers and UN officials joined hundreds of women in a beachfront, candlelit protest in Sierra Leone's capital as the killing of a 17-year-old girl highlighted a rise in violent crime in a country ravaged by Ebola. The protest followed a spate of murders in the West African country, where senior police officers say law enforcement has been disrupted by the year-old mass outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.

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