41 minutes ago Ten years ago Ebola tore through Sierra Leone. Can a vaccine drive stop history repeating itself?

Memories of 2014, when the disease ravaged west Africa, are raw, while risk remains high. This week the first ever nationwide prevention programme begins – and doctors hope it will be enough to fend off another disasterOn a concrete platform set into a steep hill in a Freetown slum, Daddy Hassan Kamara points to the tin-roofed shack behind him. “I was living here with my father, mother, wife, brothers,” he says. “I lost all my relatives inside a month.”Ten years ago, the Ebola virus tore through west Africa, killing more than 11,000 people, including nearly 4,000 in Sierra Leone – around 40% of those infected in the country. When the outbreak began, there was no vaccine. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago The Taste of Mango review – powerful memoir of family secrets in Sri Lanka

Film-maker Chloe Abrahams combines documentary and memory in candid conversations with the women in her familyThe mango taste is bittersweet in this documentary-memoir of family pain and secrets from film-maker Chloe Abrahams. Using a small digital videocamera and her smartphone, Abrahams records intimate, candid conversations with her mother and grandmother, and the resulting movie is a lucid, emotionally honest account of trauma that lies beneath the smiles of family photos and wedding videos.Abrahams shows the crisis of loyalty and agony of an abusive marriage, but shows also how the generational trauma can be healed when the generations come together. It’s a quietly powerful film to put, perhaps, alongside Victoria Mapplebeck’s Motherboard or Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias. Abraham...

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3 hours ago London weather: Storm Conall brings heavy rain to capital as flood warning issued

It comes days after Storm Bert brought widespread chaos, flooding homes, roads and railway lines

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4 hours ago Pakistan police launch massive midnight raid and push back Imran Khan’s supporters from heart of capital

Nearly 4,000 people arrested and at least seven people, including a police officer and members of security forces, lost their lives

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16 hours ago Storm Conall named by Dutch Met Office as weather warning for heavy rain issued

It comes just days after Storm Bert left hundreds of homes flooded and turned roads into rivers

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16 hours ago Met Office issues UK weather alert as Storm Conall to bring heavy rain and wind tonight

More heavy rain and wind is forecast to sweep the south of England tonight

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16 hours ago London weather: Storm Conall to bring heavy rain to capital tonight amid new flood warning

It comes days after Storm Bert brought widespread chaos, flooding homes, roads and railway lines

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17 hours ago Storm Conall mapped: Third storm of season to bring heavy rain as Met Office issues yellow weather warning

Yellow weather warnings for rain issued for parts of UK with the arrival of Storm Conall

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17 hours ago Storm Conall mapped: Which regions will see heavy rain as Met Office issues yellow weather warning

Yellow weather warnings for rain issued for parts of UK with the arrival of Storm Conall

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