Britain sent troops to the country two years ago as part of a massive United Nations peacekeeping mission which is credited with bringing an end to Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war. An MoD ...

In Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown ... Last year's emergency declaration, lauded by civil society, has helped shift the approach from punishment to care but the response is only "65% of what ...

During her service, HMS Monmouth helped to provide humanitarian aid during the Sierra Leone Civil War and hunted pirates off the Somalian coast. She was deployed across the world including the ...

Catholic charity and Pontifical foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International is supporting the Church in Sierra Leone to help the people face the trauma experienced in the country’s ...

“The echoes of World War II remind us of the catastrophic consequences that arise when freedom is curtailed and when intolerance takes root,” Fr. Konteh says in his reflection shared with ACI Africa ...

It was sometime in 2001, in the warm, buzzing office of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. The war had ended, but the scars were ...

Among its most notable records, we find its involvement in humanitarian missions during the Sierra Leone Civil War, the fight against piracy off the coast of Somalia, deployments to Antarctica, and a ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family ...

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.