Sierra Leone

In a genuine democratic culture, elections are periodically held to serve two purposes. First, to promote the constit ...

Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 09, 2019 (ECA) ndash; The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is committed to supportin ...

Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse T-shirt, her knees hugged to her chest, eight-year-old Musu Kamara sits in a corrugated sh ...

A court in Sierra Leone has sparked a deep political crisis after annulling the election of leading opposition lawmakers ...

Sierra Leone has made strides in improving child welfare over the past 20 years, showing the greatest improvement worldw ...

With a single deep-sea patrol boat, Sierra Leone was hard put to stop vessels looting its waters despite a month-long ba ...

Sierra Leone has banned industrial fishing in its territorial waters for a month from Monday in a move to try to sho ...

After nearly a year in office, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, is not tired ...

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio on Thursday declared rape and sexual violence a national emergency with life i ...

Sierra Leone, after the civil war, has been looking for foreign investors to assist overcome the challenges leveraging o ...

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has tasked a special commission with investigating allegations of widespread c ...

Mary was nine years old when her childhood abruptly ended. Three men fed her sedatives then raped her. Her mothe ...

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Freetown on Saturday against sexual violence against women, days after the Sierra Leo ...

They were promised a peace diamond dividend in the Sierra Leone village of Koryardu after the stone they handed over f ...

They have their hands full at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where record numbers of orphaned chimps are being deliv ...

A shaft of light penetrates the foul air through a fist-sized vent. It reveals naked, sweating bodies packed side-by- ...