CAN THIS EX-FOOTBALLER FULFIL LIBERIANS DREAMS?

The ex-footballer George Weah has been voted in as the president of Liberia. But will he be equal to the country's many challenges, asks Umaru Fofana... READ MORE›

'HE IS KING GEORGE': SOCCER STAR GEORGE WEAH WINS LIBERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

'He is King George' Soccer star George Weah wins Liberian presidential election... READ MORE›

GEORGE WEAH, FORMER WORLD FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR, SET TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA

The EU's chief observer, Maria Arena, congratulated the candidates and the Liberian people on a peaceful vote that generally respected constitutional rules ... READ MORE›

FORMER WORLD FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR GEORGE WEAH ELECTED LIBERIAN PRESIDENT

George Weah, former world footballer of the year, elected president of Liberia... READ MORE›

GEORGE WEAH SET TO WIN LIBERIA PRESIDENCY

Mr Weah, 51, will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, in Liberia's first democratic handover since 1944... READ MORE›

LIBERIA SET TO LEARN RESULT OF LANDMARK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Whoever wins will succeed the continent's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of Africa's oldest republic in 2006... READ MORE›

COUNTING UNDER WAY IN LIBERIA PRESIDENTIAL RUN-OFF

There has been no major incident to report of a technical nature and the voting was peaceful, noted electoral commission chief Francis Korkoya... READ MORE›

EBOLA: SURVIVORS FACE HEALTH COMPLICATIONS AMID RED CROSS SCANDAL

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Barely two years after West African nations defeated a deadly Ebola scourge, they are confronting a new epidemic corruption... READ MORE›

709 CARAT SIERRA LEONE 'PEACE DIAMOND' SOLD FOR $6.5M IN NEW YORK AUCTION

A 709 carat uncut diamond discovered in March 2017 by a group of miners in Sierra Leone fetched 6.5m at a New York auction on Monday December 4, 2017 ... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE PEACE DIAMOND NETS $6.5 MILLION IN AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR WEST AFRICAN NATION

The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, though the 113 million sector is plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›

ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST DIAMONDS FETCHES $6.5 MILLION TO DEAL WITH SMUGGLERS IN THE WEST AFRICAN NATION

The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, but the multi-million dollar sector is still plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›

GIANT 'PEACE DIAMOND' SELLS FOR $6.5M

A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for 6.5m ?4.8m ... READ MORE›

FREETOWN FLOOD DISASTER WAS '90 PERCENT MAN-MADE'

Thirty years ago, no one would have been killed, says Thorsten Kallnischkies, a geologist seconded to the United Nations Development Programme UNDP office in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

RED CROSS ADMITS EBOLA CASH LOST TO FRAUD

An investigation by Red Cross auditors has revealed that in Liberia 2.7m disappeared in fraudulently overpriced supplies, or in salaries for non-existent aid workers... READ MORE›

FRIDAYS BEST TV: UNREPORTED WORLD; AUSTRALIAN WILDERNESS WITH RAY MEARS

Ben Arnold 7.30pm, Channel 4 August saw flooding and landslides devastate Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

LIBERIA SET TO VOTE IN POLL TO CHOOSE ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF SUCCESSOR

Liberians are set to go to the polls to choose a successor to Africa's first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf... READ MORE›

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S LEONE MUDSLIDE KILLS AT LEAST 200

More than 300 people have been killed in mudslides and flooding near Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE: DEATH TOLL FROM LANDSLIDE NEARS 500

READ MORE Sierra Leone mudslide What, where and why?... READ MORE›

URGENT PLEA FOR HELP AS DEATH TOLL RISES

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Paolo Conteh told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remain unaccounted for... READ MORE›

BURIALS FOR SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDE VICTIMS

The burials involved people who had already been identified or whose bodies were badly decomposed, Freetown's chief pathologist Dr Simeon Owizz Koroma said... READ MORE›

REFLECTIONS ON SIERRA LEONE'S MUDSLIDE DISASTER

Sierra Leonean journalist and Freetown resident Umaru Fofana reflects on the disaster... READ MORE›

ATTENTION IS ON HARVEY BUT FLOODING HAS KILLED THOUSANDS THIS MONTH IN OTHER COUNTRIES TOO

Below are some photos from Sierra Leone and South Asia that give a sense of the enormity of the catastrophes there... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 300 DEAD IN SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDES AND FLOODING[1]

Sierra Leone's national broadcaster announced late Monday that the death toll had risen above 300... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS FEARED DEAD IN MUDSLIDE NEAR FREETOWN

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, officials and witnesses say... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS BURIED ALIVE IN MASSIVE SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDES AND FLOODS

Associated Press After a night of torrential rain, entire hillsides have collapsed into fast-moving mud in and around Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, on Monday... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE APPEALS FOR URGENT HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS

Paolo Conteh, the interior minister, told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remained missing... READ MORE›

MASS BURIALS AFTER DEVASTATING SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDE

READ MORE Sierra Leone mudslide What, where and why?... READ MORE›

FLOODS KILL MORE THAN 300, FEARS RISE FOR 600 MISSING

Sierra Leone entered a week-long mourning period for the victims of flooding that killed more than 300 people, with fears rising for at least 600 missing people... READ MORE›

Anyone arriving from affected West African countries without having had confirmed contact with Ebola victims will be subject to monitoring by public health officials... READ MORE›

AFTER SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDE, NATION PREPARES FOR MASS FUNERALS

An estimated 400 people who have died so far, according to Sinneh Kamara, assistant officer at Sierra Leone's Connaught hospital, which is serving as the city's morgue... READ MORE›

'I ESCAPED THROUGH A HOLE IN THE ROOF'

My husband woke me up as the water was filling the house... READ MORE›

EBOLA DRUG CLINICAL TRIALS TO START

Trials One trial involves using the blood of recovered Ebola patients to treat sick people in the Guinean capital Conakry... READ MORE›

CANADA VISA BAN HITS WEST AFRICA STATES

Ebola crisis canada visa ban hits west africa states... READ MORE›

OBAMA DEMANDS $6BN FOR EBOLA FIGHT

However, privately, UN officials say the country that currently has the worst Ebola hotspots, Sierra Leone, is not coping at all... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS

In Sierra Leone, the hardest hit of any nation during the Ebola outbreak, nearly 4,000 people died from the disease altogether 14,000 were infected... READ MORE›

NEW YEAR: CELEBRATIONS MARK START OF 2016

More than 100,000 people watched the fireworks display in London and other UK cities, amid heightened security... READ MORE›

THE SATURDAY PROFILE UN ENVOY DRAWS ON HER PAST IN SIERRA LEONE TO HELP ABUSED WOMEN

As refugees, they are at risk of higher levels of domestic violence at home and sexual harassment when they step out... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF DISEASE

Dr Oliver Johnson, from the King's Sierra Leone partnership, worked at an Ebola clinic in Freetown, and has strong links with medical professionals there... READ MORE›

NEW CASE EMERGES IN SIERRA LEONE

Health officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the West Africa outbreak over... READ MORE›

WHO CRISIS TEAM HOLDS EBOLA TALKS

Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE WHY JOAN COLLINS CHOSE TO CONFIDE IN BRAVE MISS WORLD FILMMAKER LINOR ABARGIL ABOUT TEENAGE RAPE TRAUMA

But he added that there were still, by some estimates, 1,000 to 2,000 new Ebola cases a week -- the bulk of those now in Guinea and Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARES EBOLA LOCKDOWN

Sierra Leone has the highest number of Ebola cases in West Africa, with more than 9,000 cases and more than 2,400 deaths since the start of the outbreak... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE WARNS OF MORE MUDSLIDES AS RAIN FORECAST

Authorities in Sierra Leone warned on Thursday of danger from more mudslides as a large crack has opened on a mountainside in the capital Freetown... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE IS FREE OF EBOLA, 18 MONTHS AND 11,000 DEATHS AFTER OUTBREAK

NAIROBI -- About a year and a half after it emerged, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has officially ended... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE EBOLA NURSES ON STRIKE

The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

AFRICA SETS UP $28.5M CRISIS FUND

Of the West African countries hit by the 11-month outbreak, Liberia has seen the most deaths... READ MORE›