Minister Henry Musa Kpaka is in Makeni, northern Sierra Leone, having just completed a day-long engagement with farmers, braving relentless rain. Tired but determined, he settles in at the first stop ...

Over the centuries, Sierra Leone has been a place of refuge. The Limba peoples were drawn by whispers of a land untouched by turmoil in Africa’s Sahelian kingdoms, and other tribes set out for there ...

For more than 30 years, The World Food Prize has sought to enlist young people to help solve problems of world hunger. Now it's extending those efforts abroad to countries where hunger is an ...

One of the most pressing issues facing humanity is the need to transform food systems to become more equitable, environmentally sustainable, able to deliver healthy diets for all, and also more ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The U.N.’s World Food Program on Saturday delivered emergency food rations to 265,000 people, many of them quarantined in Sierra Leone, to help fight the spread of Ebola.

Through investment, Sierra Leone plans to build critical infrastructure to upscale its agricultural production to mitigate food insecurity and expand exports. Sierra Leone is taking on chunks of ...

The new economic update for Sierra Leone points to worsening food insecurity against the backdrop of magnified economic vulnerabilities due to external shocks and domestic economic policy slippages.

Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – Supporting the most vulnerable juvenile prisoners on their path to social rehabilitation and reducing the risk of recidivism after serving their sentences – this is the goal ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food aid is reaching thousands who survived a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on ...

Evan receives funding from Arrell Family Foundation, the University of Guelph, a range of sources through different Canadian Government programs (e.g. The Canada First Research Excellence Fund and the ...