Sierra Leone faces a worsening environmental emergency as rampant deforestation devastates the Western Area Peninsula ...

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.

When the first Portuguese sailors arrived in West Africa in the 1460s, the sight of the lush green hills from the sea inspired the name Sierra Leone, or ‘Lion Mountains’. Freetown was initially ...

Boom in infections in the West African nation is driven by the same viral strain that caused a global outbreak in 2022.

Speaking yesterday Monday in Nice, France, at the 2025 High-level UN Ocean Conference, President Bio deliberately oblivious to the emergency he left behind in ...

Early last Monday morning Manga, 25, was preparing to head to work as a carpenter in the Regent area of Freetown, Sierra Leone ... I saw this whole mountain coming." A massive mudslide, sparked ...

The 56-year-old is also the first directly elected female mayor of Freetown - and the first person to be re-elected since it became a position voted for by the residents of Sierra Leone's capital ...