West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while ...

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Sierra Leone could be a place to relocate to and connect with locals, who say they are ready to welcome Black Americans.

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Global malnutrition risks getting worse because of Trump’s cuts in humanitarian aid, and here are the effects.

SINGING sweetly as she packed her bag to leave the rehab centre, Mariama Turay vowed never again to smoke kush, the fearsome ...

At the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, two baby chimps in their caretakers' arms are ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, estimated in 2020 to be 545 maternal deaths per 100 000 livebirths, more than 136 times higher than that of the lowest region.1 ...

MONROVIA – Internal Affairs Minister, Franklin Sakila Nyumalin, has issued a strong warning over the rising tensions between ...

Global health specialists talk about the consequences of the full or partial ban on travel to the U.S. from 19 countries.

Despite being declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern 10 months ago, the mpox outbreak is not over. And in places like Sierra Leone, it is spiralling. Paul Adepoju reports.

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...