The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great ...

Parliament has formally launched a region-wide campaign to fight the spread of kush, a deadly psychoactive drug that is wreaking havoc across several West African nations. The sensitisation campaign ...

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was chosen on Sunday to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS. The Economic Community of West African States, known as ECOWAS, was ...

FREETOWN - A high court in Sierra Leone has sentenced 11 people including former soldiers and police officers to long prison terms for their roles in a failed military coup last year.

Sierra Leone is still healing from an 11-year civil war that ended more than two decades ago and its population of 8 million people is among the poorest in the world. Neighboring Guinea remains ...

World Sierra Leone ‘coup’ leader sentenced to 182 years in prison Sierra Leone is still healing from an 11-year civil war that ended more than two decades ago.

Sierra Leone is still healing from an 11-year civil war that ended more than two decades ago and its population of 8 million people is among the poorest in the world.

A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses following what authorities have called an attempted coup, with their leader sentenced to almost 200 years in prison, a ...