"So when we heard that Mercy Ships were looking for qualified mariners to volunteer on board their ships we signed up." The ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...

An innovative community-based mentoring scheme for pregnant adolescent girls in Sierra Leone has been found to save lives, ...

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS.

Sierra Leone could be a place to relocate to and connect with locals, who say they are ready to welcome Black Americans.

New Brighton resident Alhaji Nyallay fears restrictions placed on his home country will prevent his son from coming to America.

He has become something of a legend in Sierra Leone. An immigrant from Sri Lanka who arrived with his family as a teenager, Amarasekaran and his wife rescued their first chimp in 1988 on a ...

But the Jones family wasn't there yet ... siblings who had been living at the Raining Season orphan center in Sierra Leone to join their two young biological sons. And with a major assist ...

More than 80 percent of land in Sierra Leone is family owned, which almost always means it is controlled by a male family member. In most cases, the first-born son inherits the property and the ...

Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she took friends’ advice and bought misoprostol, a drug whose uses include abortion, from a local pharmacy. It didn't work.

A bill that bans child marriage in Sierra Leone has been signed into law, President Julius Maada Bio said late Tuesday, in an effort to protect girls in the West African nation where about a third ...