The six-day event featured a vast array of sports, including football, rugby sevens, taekwondo, table tennis, athletics, handball, judo, volleyball, tennis, fencing, weightlifting, cycling and swimming.

NOC-SL President Patrick Coker gave the opening address, during which he defiantly vowed that “Ebola may have taken many, but it has not killed sports”.

Deputy Director of Sports Michael Shamsu Mustapha said the "Sports Jamboree" should be used to further develop sport in Sierra Leone.

Coker went on to praise the International Olympic Committee and its President Thomas Bach for the financial support they had given the African nation in a bid to help combat the disease, which has killed around 4,000 people in the country.

In November of last year, Bach met with Coker and praised the country for their efforts in tackling the virus after they set up a British-run treatment centre in the capital of Freetown.

“This opportunity was given to us by the IOC president and his executive board,” Coker said.

“The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa also gave us a small amount of money.”

The disease, which has taken the lives of nearly 12,000 people in total since its outbreak in 2014, has limited the sporting development of the main affected nations.

Sierra Leone were prohibited from participating in last year’s Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa after Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi turned them away for health and safety reasons.

His decision came despite officials claiming they had discharged their last patient, though reports then surfaced that a woman had contracted the virus, sparking fears of a fresh outbreak.

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone were all banned from hosting football matches during the heightened period of concern around the virus.