How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation ...

Sierra Leone seeks investment in a post-aid world - INTERVIEW: The chief minister of Sierra Leone tells Nick Ferris why he ...

Sierra Leone has released 55 people from Ebola quarantine but is urgently seeking another 48 people who may be infected with the virus. The West African country was declared Ebola-free on November 7, ...

A young man smokes Kush at a hideout in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday, April 29, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug ...

Reporting from Freetown, Sierra Leone — Everywhere he went in Freetown’s ghettos, a dreadlocked young vocalist named Innocent heard the plea. People were fed up with lies, theft and corruption. This ...

Senegal has its acclaimed Saint-Louis Jazz Festival and Dak’Art Biennale, Burkina Faso’s mammoth film festival, FESPACO, while Benin’s return to ancestral art and Cote d’Ivoire’s resurgent nightlife ...

Sierra Leone’s health system has a lot of problems—it’s underfunded, understaffed, and underequipped. It’s now facing what could be the largest crisis in its history if the Ebola outbreak rages out of ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone --The death toll from massive mudslides in Sierra Leone's capital was certain to rise Tuesday as bodies washed up on a beach and workers searched for an untold number of people ...

DAKAR, SenegalDAKAR, Senegal — A top official in Sierra Leone’s government said he raced to a town in the country Friday after news reports said at least 200 people had been killed in a mining ...

Earlier we reported on a gold mine collapse in Sierra Leone in which 200 people were said to be killed. The good news is that 200 people didn't die. The bad news is that it was apparently all a hoax.

(AP) — Forever Young beat defending champion Sierra Leone by a half-length to win the $7 million Breeders ... Scylla won the ...

In the early morning hours Monday, a deadly landslide came crashing down and a torrent of dirty brown flood water filled the streets in the capital of Sierra Leone. According to the Red Cross, more ...