Few cities face the kind of challenges that Freetown faces. A city of 1 million and capital of the West African nation of Sierra Leone, Freetown endured a bloody civil war in the 1990s and continued ...

Most Sierra Leoneans may still be very poor, but the end of the war has given them a chance to change this state of affairs. They are hard at it. The war has been over for more than a year now ...

Joe N’Damena, who was responsible for aid distribution at a Methodist church in Freetown, describes By Scot Broch The war started in the far eastern district of Kailahun, a direct result of a similar ...

is doing the school run. Miriam, 41 – white, middle-class, raised in rural Northamptonshire – cuts an incongruous figure in the frenetic crowds of Sierra Leone’s bustling capital. Girls sashay ...

In the early hours of January 6, l999, rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) launched an offensive against the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, capturing it from government troops and the ...

Members of Capt. Tew’s Company of Col. Angell’s Regiment on Saturday marched in perfect unison around a field off Slab Bridge Road, solemnly looked to the idyllic sky above and rang a round of shots ...

FREETOWN — A mob of militiamen and onlookers burned a king in effigy, raided an Assonet house, threatened to saw someone in half and almost hanged two men on Saturday night. And it was all done with a ...