Njala Giema is a village in eastern Sierra Leone, set deep in the forest off the highway from Kenema to Kailahun. The hamlet had a population of about 200 people; at least 61 have died since Ebola struck in May. Locals say the disease was brought by relatives of a nurse infected in the nearest town, Daru. The village has been in lockdown as Sierra Leone quarantined a million people in an attempt to slow Ebolas spread. Meanwhile, in Kenema, to the west of the village, people have been queueing in heavy rain to collect food parcels
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