Sierra Leone has officially been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Thousands
of people took to the streets of the capital, Freetown, at the stroke
of midnight - marking 42 days without a single declared case of the
disease. There were further cheers when the WHO local representative made the official announcement later on Saturday.
The outbreak killed almost 4,000 people in Sierra Leone over the past 18 months.
A country is considered free of human-to-human transmission once two 21-day incubation periods have passed since the last known case tested negative for a second time.
Source: BBC
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