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

Despite being declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern 10 months ago, the mpox outbreak is not over. And in places like Sierra Leone, it is spiralling. Paul Adepoju reports.

Historic ties between SC and West Africa run deep. A new travel restriction on Sierra Leone could hinder efforts to honor ...

We set off from Freetown that morning, leaving the capital’s blue-green shores to follow increasingly non-existent roads east into Sierra Leone’s Southern Province ... they thought its peaks resembled ...

At just 20 years old, Momoh Kamara has become the heartbeat of Sierra Leone’s U20 team ... raised in the tough neighborhoods of East End Freetown, Kamara’s rise is rooted in resilience.

I accepted Sierra Leone as my second home at the age of 28, full of energy and joy. I worked for Mrs. Ashwood and her daughter, Mrs. Pamela Grant, as a van driver, at the famous Red Lion Bakery, which ...

More than a million trees have been planted in the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone since 2020 ... conservation and exploitation of Freetown's mountain forest has existed for centuries.

The small factories they founded were given the collective name Sierra Leone or Lion Mountain. As the Portuguese influence ... in the place where the capital of Sierra Leone - the Free City of ...

Sierra Leone’s capital ... consisted of about 30 bungalows. This mountain settlement, its first stage completed in 1904, was connected to Freetown’s city centre by a narrow-gauge railway ...

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 ...

See All Key Ideas FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Standing at an altitude of 1,945 meters (6,381 feet), Mount Bintumani is the highest peak of the Loma Mountains, which is the highest mountain range ...