Spanning 160 metres across the Jong River, the new bridge replaces a colonial-era manual ferry system that had, for decades, ...

A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared kush a public health emergency, but poverty and trauma are slowing efforts ...

Sierra Leone will wait for the results of a recently-launched offshore 3D seismic survey, its first in over a decade, ahead of potentially opening its next oil and gas licensing round later this year, ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has declared a national emergency on substance abuse following calls on his government to crack down on the rising use of a cheap and sometimes deadly ...

Considering the history of Sierra Leone, ... Sierra Leone: Government is Not the Solution to Country's Problems; Government is the Problem. 27 January 2009. Concord Times (Freetown) ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Solomon Sogbandi, the acting director for Amnesty International in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone says the group is working to make sure the government abolishes ...

(New York) - The new government of Sierra Leone must act decisively to address the issues that gave rise to the bloody decade-long war, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today.

The secretary general of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) is calling on the government to stop making empty promises and deliver on the ones it made to Sierra Leoneans five years ...

The attacks on Sierra Leone's main military barracks and prisons are a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government's spokesman said Tuesday.

Letter to U.N. Security Council Members on Protection of Civilians, Justice, Diamonds, and Arms in Sierra Leone June 20, 2000 News Release Decisive U.N. Action on Sierra Leone Urged ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, Sept. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The new government of the Republic of Sierra Leone has chosen Agrotop, a leading global pla ...