Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighboring countries and spark a larger ...

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of Africa's great destinations to the world.

The losses from the sale of the three subsidiaries were largely due to forex translation, ...

The canopy decimation is replicated throughout Sierra Leone and much of West Africa. Recent analysis of long-term losses show that more than 80% of the region’s forests have vanished.

Sierra Leone will wait for the results of a recently-launched offshore 3D seismic survey, its first in over a decade, ahead of potentially opening its next oil and gas licensing round later this year, ...

The most exciting place to visit in Africa right now is an off-the-beaten-path nation better known for making tragic headlines than attracting tourists: Welcome to a splashy new Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has declared a national emergency on substance abuse following calls on his government to crack down on the rising use of a cheap and sometimes deadly ...

That’s why last month, when Sierra Leone held the rotating presidency of the Security Council, I told fellow world leaders that Africa cannot wait any longer; it is absurd for the most powerful ...

So at this point, it's still less than 1% of the population that's been immunized here in Sierra Leone. And that's pretty average if you look across most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa.