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I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too ...
In the small village of Rogbasha in Bombali district, Sierra Leone, life has almost returned to normal, three-and-half years after the end of the Ebola outbreak. Villagers sit around the big tree ...
Pastor Emmanuel Momoh found the 706-carat alluvial diamond in Yakadu village in Sierra Leone's diamond-rich east, and it was presented to President Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday, said ...
Local charity Action4schools has announced the successful completion of its 110th water well project, delivered in ...
By Victoria Schneider A two-year investigation into 139 complaints lodged by communities in Africa and Asia affected by tropical plantation company Socfin has confirmed that many of the allegations ...
A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases surged by 71%. Roughly half of all confirmed mpox cases in Africa now come ...
Sierra Leoneans are worried by the increasing number of mpox cases and deaths that have been recorded in 2025.
In Sierra Leone village, Ebola aid appears ‘too little, too late’ Nov 11, 2014 8:51 PM EDT ...
Sierra Leone Topic Mod. architecture/cityscape -- Photographs Photographer Ottenberg, Simon Culture Limba (African people) See more items in ... Limba Peoples, Sierra Leone and Guinea / 1.2: Field ...
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...
Sierra Leone has lost an estimated 35% of its forest cover since 2000. With only 5,500 wild Western chimpanzees remaining, the chimpanzee population’s fate reflects the health of the forest ...
People stand by a small shop in the Sierra Leone village of Fanima, Sept. 25, 2024. Credit: AP/Jack Thompson“We used to export rice,” Kpaka said in an interview.