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, ...
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 ...
Why is Sierra Leone reporting an uptick in Ebola cases while Liberia's outbreak is slowing? The chain of events in one village points up the... A Deadly Chain: Tracing Ebola In A Sierra Leone Village ...
Nearly 1,000 people in Sierra Leone have been put under quarantine following the death of a 67-year-old woman who tested positive for Ebola. It comes five days into a six-week countdown for the ...
MASSILLON – Teach Tamagalie is a Christian mission born out of friendships that stretch from from England to California to Stark County. It's the brainchild of Deborah Fowler, a missionary and ...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Rice borders on the sacred in Sierra Leone. Unless a meal includes rice, people say, you haven’t eaten at all. But as prices soar, consumers in the West African nation ...
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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara ...
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched the Sierra Leone health village and turned the sod for the construction of an ultra-modern general hospital at Kerry Town, Western Rural ...