Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, is widely known as the home of formerly enslaved people – hence its name.Founded in 1787, thousands of enslaved people were either returned to or ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone ‘s capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of ...

Two prostitutes who work on the streets of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, tell their stories ... Plett Usher visits Khartoum days after the city was recaptured by Sudan's government ...

In the last hour (6pm GMT), the Sierra Leone Telegraph has received reports of large fire burning at State House in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. The ...

In Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, a vast landfill choked ... The landfill, a symbol of the city's struggle with waste management, has become a grim backdrop to a growing public health crisis.

EXCLUSIVE: A travel blogger headed to one underrated African destination and found a paradise void of tourists but full of ...

Sawyerr, and its first chief heat officer, Eugenia Kargbo, have teamed up to protect citizens from extreme heat and replenish Sierra Leone’s tropical rainforests.

In December l998, following the capture of the diamond rich Kono district and subsequently Makeni, Sierra Leone's fifth largest city, thousands of RUF fighters started moving towards the capital.

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 ...

At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of decomposing waste. Zainab sits there, squinting through the soot. It is her usual spot for buying kush, a cheap ...