Ebola Outbreak: Appeal to reopen schools

A campaign group has urged the rapid reopening of schools in three Ebola-hit West African states as some 5m children are being denied education.

Education had become "one of the first casualties of the crisis" in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it added. 

The "most marginalised" would bear the brunt of the crisis for generations to come if "safe schools" were not reopened, the group said. 

Ebola was declared a health emergency after it was identified in March.

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said the country still had only 406 beds, or less than one-third of the number required, to treat Ebola patients.