How Ebola Found Fertile Ground in Sierra Leone's Chaotic Capital
Poverty and population density fueled a deadly crisis​ in Freetown Grave diggers rest after a day of work in King Tom cemetery in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In December, about 50 bodies a day were buried; by January, it was about 35 a day. A sea of rusted, tin-roofed shanties cascades chaotically to the Atlantic. Between the makeshift shelters of Kroo Bay, a slum in the cap..