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›

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›

CHINA IS A DEPENDABLE FRIEND TO SIERRA LEONE, SAYS PRESIDENT KOROMA

President Koroma entering the Chinese Ark Peace Hospital ship Sierra Leone's Preside... READ MORE›

PLA NAVY, ON HUMANITARIAN MISSION, VISITS SIERRA LEONE[1]

The vessel arrived on Tuesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital and largest city, which is a major port on the Atlantic Ocean... READ MORE›

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›

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›

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›

GRAPHIC IMAGES UNDERCOVER FILM REVEALS ANIMAL ABUSE AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE

The country of six million has had almost 11,000 Ebola cases and 3,363 deaths during the epidemic, which has raged in West Africa for nearly a year... READ MORE›

FREETOWN: A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN?

How geography, climate change and politics contributed to Sierra Leone's latest disaster... READ MORE›

S LEONE HOUSES SEARCHED FOR EBOLA

Freetown has recorded more than 50 of all Ebola infections in Sierra Leone over the past two weeks... READ MORE›

NEARLY 400 BODIES RECOVERED FROM SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDE, 600 STILL MISSING

Bodies continued to arrive at Freetown's overwhelmed central morgue on Tuesday... READ MORE›

EBOLA IS ALL BUT OVER, BUT THE POSTMORTEM IS JUST GETTING STARTED

But because of the extreme inadequacies of healthcare and surveillance systems in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Ebola was first diagnosed only in March 2014... READ MORE›

SURGEON WITH EBOLA ON FLIGHT TO U.S. FOR CARE

Martin Salia poses for a photo at the United Methodist Church's Kissy Hospital outside Freetown, Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS

WHO commends the government and people of Sierra Leone for the significant achievement of ending this Ebola outbreak, he said... READ MORE›