Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, is widely known as the home of formerly enslaved people – hence its name. Founded in 1787, thousands of enslaved people were either returned to or liberated in ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – A pastor in Sierra Leone has discovered the largest uncut diamond found in more than four decades in this West African country and has turned it over to the government, saying ...

Fatimata Kamara and Salimatu Kanu, both former practitioners of female genital mutilation, pose for a picture in the clearing where their shrine used to stand, Thawuya village, Port Loko district, ...

Sierra Leone has placed 1,000 village residents under quarantine after a woman died and tested positive for Ebola. The quarantine will take place in a village in Kambia, close to the border with ...

Alex Thompson of Independent Television News reports. While panic over Ebola has mostly faded in the U.S., communities in West Africa are still completely overwhelmed by the deadly epidemic. Alex ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A pastor in Sierra Leone has discovered the largest uncut diamond found in more than four decades in this West African country and has turned it over to the government, ...

THAWUYA, Sierra Leone, August 08 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Salimatu Kanu trained for four years at the shrine in her Sierra Leonean village to become a "sowei" - women who initiate girls into ...

In this photo taken from video footage, Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma hands a diamond during a meeting with delegates of Kono district, where the gem was found, at the presidential office ...

A fortuitous pastor in Sierra Leone has discovered the second largest diamond ever found in the country, a 706-carat hockey puck sized diamond. The pastor, Emmanuel Momoh found the stone while he was ...