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Sorie Kondi and DJ Chief Boima of Kondi Band

Kondi Band connects West African thumb piano with US electronica

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Sori Kondi is from Sierra Leone. DJ Chief Boima is from Wisconsin. Together they’re the Kondi Band. And their music is a blend of traditional West African music with contemporary electronica.

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Black and Muslim, some African immigrants feel the brunt of Trump’s immigration plans

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One of many banners around Freetown, Sierra Leone, warning people not to touch one another because of Ebola.

Emerging from the spectre of Ebola

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Young kids take part in informal French language lessons in the village of Meliandou, Guinea, ground zero for the West African Ebola outbreak.

Why my photo from Guinea sparked a soccer star’s search for one boy

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Interviewing people in Guinea in December "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real virus. "BBC correspondent Tulip Mazumdar conducts an interview in Guinea in December 2014. "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real vir

Ebola veterans warn that vigilance is still needed as case numbers drop

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Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic continues to claim lives

Ebola is leaving a new generation of orphans

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More than 10,000 children are believed have been orphaned by the Ebola epidemic — and orphanages are struggling to cope with the load.

Edward Turay, Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Britain, attends the "Defeating Ebola: Sierra Leone" conference in central London on October 2, 2014.

Ebola cases are soaring in Sierra Leone, and the government is coming up short

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Despite a major influx of supplies and expertise, new cases of Ebola are spreading faster in Sierra Leone than in neighboring Liberia. While some Sierra Leoneans are pointing the finger at the UK, which once ruled the country, the government’s disorganized response is playing a big role.

A student at Goverment Secondary School Garki washes her hands, as school resumed in Abuja, Nigeria, in late September.

Here’s one reason Nigeria has halted the spread of Ebola

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As a boy growing up in Cameroon, Christian Happi’s heroes were American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick. His dream was to work in genetics. Now he’s doing the work he finds most meaningful. Happi’s lab was among the first to identify the presence of the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria.

An empty street at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on September 19, 2014. Curfews were imposed in an effort to halt the spread of the Ebola virus.

Sierra Leone celebrates the end of its lockdown, but Ebola still looms

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The Ebola stricken nation of Sierra Leone was on lockdown over the past weekend as part of a national effort to stop the spread of Ebola. During the curfews, thousands of health workers and volunteers went house-to-house, looking for suspected Ebola cases.

Health workers wearing protective clothing disinfect themselves after an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms was found at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 17, 2014.

This American doctor says racism is to blame for the slow response to the Ebola outbreak

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Dr. Joia Mukherjee is part of a small team of Boston-area doctors heading to Liberia this week, hoping to lay the groundwork for an ambitious, multi-year project aimed at combating the Ebola outbreak. She says the reason the world has responded so slowly to the crisis is that Africans and poor people are not considered important.