Thomas Mariee's expedition down the Rokel River was an exercise in getting out of his comfort zone, one rapid and insect bite ...

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 the working-age population engages in subsistence agriculture. The country possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery resources ...

Sierra Leone was the departure point for thousands of enslaved west African people. Coming full circle, Freetown was established as a home for repatriated former slaves in 1787. Sierra Leone has ...

On the day my fieldwork was wrapping ... Similarly, in Sierra Leone, many people appear optimistic about the prospect of a hyper-modern city that promises development in the form of investment ...

Voting is under way in Sierra Leone, where more than three million people are eligible to choose a new president, parliament and local councillors. In the capital, Freetown, long queues could be ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) says that in 2021, fine particle air pollution killed 1,200 people in Sierra Leone, a country of 8.5 million people. Samba first ventured into ...

What caused the current crisis in Sierra Leone? Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was engaged in a violent civil war that displaced two million people, killed more than 50,000 and fostered ...

The girl from Sierra Leone said all the 44 migrants on board ... twice a year to provide children with life changing surgery. People remain trapped under the rubble of a seven-storey building ...