Sierra Leone is a poor country in western Africa. A former British colony, it is significant in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, serving as both a departure point for captive people and a ...

When an Israeli air strike killed her employer and destroyed nearly everything she owned in southern Lebanon, it also crushed ...

has extended a $480-million five-year grant to Sierra Leone to provide reliable and affordable electricity to 4.6 million people, the fund said. Only about 30% of the West African country's ...

That meant asking about their right to land. Among Mende-speaking people of eastern Sierra Leone a woman's land right depends on her being a member of a land-owning clan. A Mende woman is always ...

In just six years, she has introduced models of sustainability to Sierra Leone´s capital ... Should the ropeway be built, people will enjoy a scenic view of green nature. With the initiative ...

Rescuers in Sierra Leone are continuing to search for more survivors after a seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Freetown, killing at least 10 people. The West African country's ...

It hopes to build critical infrastructure to, first, mitigate food insecurity and meet the demand of its own people and, in the long run, step up exports. The recent African Development Bank funding ...

Thousands of women are estimated to have turned to sex work across Sierra Leone. Many of them are young women orphaned by the war, which claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people and displaced ...

In this article, we'll explore the four British colonial territories that existed in West Africa: Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana ...