FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Voters in Sierra Leone were deciding Saturday whether to give President Julius Maada Bio a second term amid high unemployment and growing concern about the state of the West ...

Vote counting began in Sierra Leone on Saturday following a mostly peaceful general election despite a late start in some polling stations, as the opposition denounced alleged irregularities.

The soaring cost of living in Sierra Leone could push some of children out of education. Over the past year, Sierra Leone’s fuel price has steadily risen and in March it was hiked from 12,000 leones ...

Sierra Leone — It was a day of unrest and violence in the Sierra Leonean Capital, Freetown on Wednesday when anti-government protesters clashed with police in the streets; leaving several people dead ...

Four months after the landslides that killed her husband and more than a thousand others, Mariama Kamara has returned to the mountainside that collapsed onto their home to live in an unfinished ...

Three years ago, Sierra Leone was one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. The country's iron ore exports were booming and at one point the economy was growing by 20% a year. But then came the ...

World Pulse is a social networking platform connecting women worldwide for change. Like many people around the world, I was watching the news when I first saw the image of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – A judge in Sierra Leone has issued an arrest warrant for a top ally of former Liberian President Charles Taylor recently discovered living in Freetown. Tonia Mbawa issued the ...

Over the past year, Sierra Leone’s fuel price has steadily risen and in March it was hiked from 12,000 leones (73p) per litre to 15,000 leones (92p). It comes as fuel prices have seen an unprecedented ...

Three years ago, Sierra Leone was one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. The country's iron ore exports were booming and at one point the economy was growing by 20% a year. But then came the ...