This is a big relief to all the Ebola affected Countries in West Africa and Africa in general, as a UK aid ship arrived in Sierra Leone to help deal with the deadly Ebola outbreak in the West African country.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argus is carrying food, medical equipment and 32 pick-up trucks, to help keep hard-pressed Ebola treatment centres going.
Doctors, nurses and military personnel are also on board. The ship has docked in the capital, Freetown.
Ebola has killed nearly 5,000 people and infected more than 10,000 in West Africa since March.
RFA Argus set sail from Falmouth in Cornwall on 17 October and is also carrying three Royal Navy Merlin helicopters.
According to Andrew Harding, the BBC's Africa correspondent, said it would act as an offshore base for the aid effort, and described it as an "important moment".
He said there was now the "beginnings of hope" in Freetown that the giant international aid effort was beginning to get under way.
I pray more positive movements like this and ways to finally have this Ebola outbreak fully under human control.
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