Sierra Leone’s President Bio Presides Over Swearing-In Of New Electoral Commissioner East, Urges Commitment To Credible ...

Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie, Secretary General of the Sierra Leone People's Party, told Reuters that party members would embark on peaceful demonstrations, civil disobedience and strikes across the ...

But Bio's recent appointment as flagbearer of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) has caused a stir in Freetown over whether the former fighter is fit to lead a country still struggling to put ...

The Sierra Leone People’s Party, or SLPP, said in a statement issued Tuesday that the party calls on its lawmakers, as well as its mayors and councilors in local government to abstain from ...

The ruling party candidate seeking to succeed President Ernest Bai Koroma as Sierra Leone's president claimed Monday he was his boss's "biggest legacy". The ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) held ...

Sierra Leone’s President Bio Honoured at Liberia Independence Celebrations, as he Delivers Inspiring Keynote on Shared History and Regional Unity ...

The national electoral commission said Koroma, of the All People's Congress, had won with 54.6 percent of valid votes, defeating his rival, Vice President Solomon Berewa of the Sierra Leone People ...

Gunfire broke out on September 9 in the city of Bo after Julius Maada Bio, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party, was hit by a stone while visiting the town.

Sierra Leone could become the second country in West Africa to decriminalize abortion, which health workers say would significantly improve the safety of pregnant women, decrease the number of ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family… ...

‘They go to any length’ An estimated 90,000 abortions are performed annually in Sierra Leone, a country of more than 8 million people, according to research by the African Population and ...