Sierra Leone

South Africa has entered an October ranking of Africa’s 10 most expensive countries for petrol, alongside Lesotho, replacing Uganda and Senegal. Malawi leads the list, while South Africa…

Johannesburg – Seventeen African countries have signed controversial bilateral health agreements with the United States under President Donald Trump’s restructured aid strategy, replacing traditional multilateral programmes with direct…

Sierra Leone is currently grappling with an outbreak of Clade II mpox, a strain of the monkeypox virus associated with West Africa. As of 17 July 2025, active…

DAKAR - Sierra Leone's parliament voted unanimously on Friday to repeal the death penalty more than two decades after the West African country carried out its last execution.

Freetown - A former rebel leader in Sierra Leone, imprisoned for crimes against humanity committed during the country's civil war, has been granted conditional early release, the country's…

West Africa’s top court on Thursday ordered Sierra Leone to revoke a ban on pregnant girls in school, a move activists hope could lead to challenges against similar…

CAPE TOWN - Sierra Leone have been disqualified from the preliminaries for the 2019 African Nations Cup finals, confirming places for Kenya and Ghana at the continental championship…

The Heads of six International Election Observation Missions (IEOMs) in Freetown, have called on all stakeholders in the country to ensure peaceful and credible elections on Wednesday.

Foreign governments and health organisations poured millions of dollars into the three nations to halt the epidemic’s spread, but local authorities in Sierra Leone were dogged by allegations…

DAKAR - Money is being sent via mobile phone to hundreds of families who survived a deadly mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown last month,…