Authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a two-week lockdown in the eastern district of Kono after health workers uncovered a surge of Ebola infections in the area, where the epidemic was thought to be largely under control.
Iraq imposed a nationwide security lockdown Friday before key regional elections with blanket measures not seen since the deadliest years of the insurgency, underscoring the high stakes for Iraqi leaders desperate to portray stability after nearly six years of conflict.
In Sierra Leone the authorities planned to impose a nationwide lockdown for three days in an attempt to stop its spread.
In Cairo, where Islamists were always weakest, the security forces have ridden a wave of public approbation as they have moved quickly to impose a tight lockdown on street protests.
Europe's de facto capital faces an unprecedented security lockdown this week after Belgian authorities imposed a slew of safety-first measures to prevent a "serious and imminent" terrorist attack.
This week, Sierra Leone imposes a three-day nationwide lockdown to root out Ebola cases, wildfires rage in parts of Northern California, archaeologists discover gas chambers below the site of a WWII concentration camp in Eastern Poland, and Australian police stop a public beheading plot allegedly linked to the Islamic State.
When something goes wrong with the project, Blind Lake's inhabitants are totally cut off from the outside world by an externally imposed "lockdown" -- although, in a paradox that Wilson clearly relishes, the O/BEC's continue to bring in images of alien life from afar.
On the day I attended, one man missed class because his halfway house had imposed lockdown, another because a new conviction had landed him back in jail.
Over the previous few weeks, three fires have been set; violence reached a new, all-time low recently when a lockdown was imposed after parents stormed the campus and started brawling alongside their little gangstas.
Groups of students in two Tibetan areas of Gansu Province, in western China, have held separate protests after Chinese security forces imposed lockdowns at boarding schools before the anniversaries of previous Tibetan uprisings, according to a report by the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group.
