By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) - Schools in Sierra Leone reopened on Tuesday after closing for nine months due to an Ebola epidemic that killed 3,800 people, but teachers and aid workers said attendance was low due to lingering fears of the disease. The authorities have waived fees at state schools and hope 1.8 million children will return to catch up on a lost academic year in the impoverished country of 6 million. "This marks a major step in the normalisation of life in Sierra Leone," said Roeland Monasch, representative for the U.N. Children's Fund in Sierra Leone. Unicef has supplied schools with soap and water and thermometers to check for fever, an Ebola symptom.
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