I got held up at gunpoint in Sierra Leone, and it was adorable
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Version 0 of 1. SIERRA LEONE — They came out of nowhere, guns raised, their fingers on the trigger. Before I could react, they were peering into my car window. Well, they were trying to. They were each about 3 feet tall. When you're 4 years old and Ebola has shut down all of your country's schools and community centers, messing around with a foreign journalist sounds pretty fun. And when you're a foreign journalist drained from covering one of the world's most depressing stories, a fake gun battle sounds like a nice change of pace. Take care, young soldiers. May your guns always be plastic.
Kevin Sieff is currently in Sierra Leone. Follow him on Instagram. Read more here: Six months on, Sierra Leone lacks beds for Ebola patients A doctor’s mistaken Ebola test: ‘We were celebrating. . . . Then everything fell apart’ Can a U.S. military Ebola treatment center slow Ebola in one hard-hit city? Photos: Inside a Liberian slum fighting the Ebola epidemic |