Countries Sierra Leone declares public health emergency over mpox Freetown – Sierra Leone declared a public health emergency on Monday to combat mpox, announcing it was stepping up... Read more 14 Jan
Countries S Leone launches nationwide Ebola vaccination a decade after outbreak Freetown – Sierra Leone on Thursday started injecting the first of thousands of frontline workers with a preventive Ebola... Read more 6 Dec, 2024
Countries ‘We don’t want to die here’: Sierra Leone migrants trapped in Lebanon Freetown – When an Israeli air strike killed her employer and destroyed nearly everything she owned in southern Lebanon,... Read more 4 Oct, 2024
Countries Rescuers search for survivors after Sierra Leone building collapse Freetown – A seven-storey residential building collapsed in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday with many feared trapped under... Read more 17 Sep, 2024
Agriculture Sierra Leone’s women farmers use a custom called bora to access land – but it’s making them more vulnerable Bankolay Theodore Turay, University of Lagos Bora – a type of thank you gift – is a Sierra Leonean... Read more 26 Aug, 2024
Countries Sierra Leone rangers fight uphill battle against deforestation Sierra Leone — As the rainclouds descend on Sierra Leone’s tropical Kambui forest, a handful of khaki-clad rangers assemble... Read more 17 Jul, 2024
Countries Sierra Leone adopts law banning child marriage Sierra Leone – Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio on Tuesday promulgated a law banning child marriage in a... Read more 3 Jul, 2024
Countries In Sierra Leone, the people fighting the sea to build a home Freetown – Off a path in Cockle Bay, a slum in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, lies the squat, tin-roofed... Read more 28 Feb, 2023
Countries Sierra Leone opposition presidential hopeful in corruption trial Freetown – A Sierra Leone court on Thursday began a corruption trial against the main opposition party’s candidate in... Read more 24 Feb, 2023
Countries Sierra Leone opposition select candidate despite corruption charges Freetown – Sierra Leone’s main opposition party on Monday named former foreign minister Samura Kamara as its presidential candidate... Read more 22 Feb, 2023