"So when we heard that Mercy Ships were looking for qualified mariners to volunteer on board their ships we signed up." The ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...

An innovative community-based mentoring scheme for pregnant adolescent girls in Sierra Leone has been found to save lives, ...

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS.

Courtenay Griffiths, the British barrister who served as lead defense counsel for former Liberian President Charles Taylor during his war crimes trial, has died at the age of 70, the Residual Special ...

New Brighton resident Alhaji Nyallay fears restrictions placed on his home country will prevent his son from coming to America.

President Julius Maada Bio assumes ECOWAS Chairmanship, receiving the gavel from President Bola Tinubu during the 65th Summit in Abuja. First Sierra Leonean President to chair ECOWAS, President Bio ...

He has become something of a legend in Sierra Leone. An immigrant from Sri Lanka who arrived with his family as a teenager, Amarasekaran and his wife rescued their first chimp in 1988 on a trip ...

Sierra Leone's government has declared a public health emergency over the drug Kush. ... Due to family tensions, she has chosen to live “on the streets” with her boyfriend.

More than 80 percent of land in Sierra Leone is family owned, which almost always means it is controlled by a male family member. In most cases, the first-born son inherits the property and the ...

"You're not losing a family, you're just getting more people to love you," Hayley Jones recalled telling the kids. Then, in March 2013, the group finally came home with Hayley Jones. Together ...

A bill that bans child marriage in Sierra Leone has been signed into law, President Julius Maada Bio said late Tuesday, in an effort to protect girls in the West African nation where about a third ...