On April 27, 1961, the people of Sierra Leone danced in the streets, waving green, white, and blue flags, celebrating the end of colonial rule and the birth of a new nation. With optimism swelling, ...

The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone enshrines this aspiration. Its preamble reaffirms a commitment to “maintaining the ...

The President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has sent two separate messages of ...

By Jason Mitchell Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped ...

African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Fire broke out inside Sierra Leone’s presidential building in central Freetown Saturday, witnesses and the government said, but President Julius Maada Bio was not present.

They are known as the King of Fish – yet salmon stocks are in dramatic decline in a record number of Scottish rivers, an alarming new report shows. Although an icon of wild Scotland and a prized ...

Fire broke out inside Sierra Leone’s presidential building in central Freetown Saturday, witnesses and the government said. The AFP report indicated that President Julius Maada Bio was not ...

[water splashing] ...another man in a river in Sierra Leone draws his in. Here in Africa were born the legacies that have passed down to their American cousins, and the channels of history plied ...

According to hydrograph data from the National Weather Service, the rain fueled major floods on several tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly within the Ohio River watershed in ...

After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious to return to their flooded homes and assess what was salvageable, even as stubbornly high ...

In the images, captured by NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System, before and after images can be seen of the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys. Dark floodwaters saturate the earth below as ...