Most of the houses in the area were constructed on land reclaimed from the sea. This is through a process called “banking,” where people pile layers of tyres, rubbish, and sacks of earth into ...

Women’s reproductive rights are up to be widely expanded in Sierra Leone as lawmakers debate the Safe Motherhood Bill, which ...

Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone experienced positive improvements in political ...

A review and analysis of three key government documents indicates that, in Sierra Leone, securitisation discourse is embedded in both the political economy discourse of the state and in the popular ...

The girl from Sierra Leone said all the 44 migrants on board ... People remain trapped under the rubble of a seven-storey building in the capital Freetown. BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors ...