GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - June 2016

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This month, the magazine is about Ebola. The media has stopped talking about it. And West Africa will feel the effects - social, cultural and economic – for many years. We take a critical look at the humanitarian response and problems with the health systems. Ebola is not a new disease – it’s been around since 1976 – so why did more than 11,000 West Africans die 2014 - 16? Did we learn the right lessons? And is Sierra Leone ready if the virus returns?

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This is the main article - read about Sierra Leone after Ebola - did we learn the right lessons?:

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Mamie Lebbi was the first person in Sierra Leone to have Ebola. Read how she survived:

It's almost impossible to find the graves of family members who died from Ebola - this is the story of one woman looking for her father's grave:

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Why did so many teenage girls get pregnant in the Ebola crisis? Read about some of them:

Read about the Tripoli Boys who live in a slum in Sierra Leone and helped to stop Ebola:

‘These are the boys who fought Ebola!’

Many women were sterilized by force in Peru twenty years ago. The government didn't agree that they were responsible. Now they are trying to get compensation:

Do you want to find out more about Ecuador? Read this information and facts about the country:

A student in Sierra Leone waited weeks and months before he could touch his new girl friend! Read his story:

From this month's blogs:

Read about how the Mexicans are fighting Donald Trump!

Showing Trump what we think of him

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