Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its jade-green shores reveals a nation with its eyes fixed on the road ahead.

Sierra Leone has declared a nationwide curfew after gunmen attacked a military barracks in the capital, Freetown ... In a statement issued on Sunday, West Africa’s regional bloc, the Economic ...

Explaining the recent history of democracy in the two West ... Freetown: nearly 60 per cent of Sierra's Leone's eight million people are poor, with unemployment rates one of the highest in West ...

Stories like Bassie's abound in Sierra Leone, a small nation in West Africa with ... the Western Peninsula near Freetown to spot the white-necked rockfowl, one of Africa's rarest and most peculiar ...

Dozens of people have been injured in clashes between supporters of rival presidential candidates in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Police fired tear ... two rival candidates to call for calm. BBC ...

At the nearby Tasso Ecotourism Project, an island in the Sierra Leone ... Freetown Peninsula’s southern tip, the densely forested Banana Islands are a tropical idyll with some of West Africa ...