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

Cocaine/Kush intake has sharply increased across Sierra Leone - from urban cities into rural communities. With vulnerable youth and young girls greatly ...

the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war between 1991 and ...

Grassroots groups around the world have lost funding for a range of humanitarian projects, including medical aid and fighting ...

A phone vibration drew my attention to an incoming message – a friend had sent a message with an attachment and a note reading, “This is so ...

Today’s visit by President Julius Maada Bio to Liberia, though officially tagged “ Sustaining Peace and Security through Stakeholder Engagements- the role of the Armed Forces”, goes slightly ...

Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the construction of Freetown’s Hill Station enclave a century ago.

Sierra Leone has recalled its ambassador from neighbouring Guinea after seven suitcases containing suspected cocaine were found in an embassy vehicle. On Monday, Guinean authorities impounded a ...

Linked to a 20-year longitudinal study of war in Sierra Leone, the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI) is a promising approach for addressing mental health problems among at-risk youth in low resource ...

The country’s modern history has been overshadowed by a brutal civil war that ended in 2002, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than 2 million people – about ...

Sierra Leone is extremely poor and nearly half of ... but it is still recovering from a civil war that destroyed most institutions before ending in the early 2000s. In recent years, economic ...