FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Barely two years after West African nations defeated a deadly Ebola scourge, they are confronting a new epidemic corruption... READ MORE›
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›
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›
A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for 6.5m ?4.8m ... READ MORE›
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›
Ben Arnold 7.30pm, Channel 4 August saw flooding and landslides devastate Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
More than 300 people have been killed in mudslides and flooding near Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown... READ MORE›
A massive mudslide sparked by heavy rains and flooding in an area of Freetown, Sierra Leone, has killed around 500 people and left hundreds more missing... READ MORE›
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PORT LOKO, Sierra Leone -- Sweetie Sweetie had no choice... READ MORE›
PORT LOKO, Sierra Leone -- Sweetie Sweetie had no choice... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Paolo Conteh told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remain unaccounted for... READ MORE›
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›
Sierra Leonean journalist and Freetown resident Umaru Fofana reflects on the disaster... READ MORE›
Below are some photos from Sierra Leone and South Asia that give a sense of the enormity of the catastrophes there... READ MORE›
Sierra Leone's national broadcaster announced late Monday that the death toll had risen above 300... READ MORE›
Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, officials and witnesses say... READ MORE›
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›
Paolo Conteh, the interior minister, told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remained missing... READ MORE›
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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›
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›
A healthcare worker sprays disinfectant in the area they found a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
My husband woke me up as the water was filling the house... READ MORE›
Haaretz sierra leone bearing brunt of ebola outbreak needs more beds 47 hrs ago... READ MORE›
However, privately, UN officials say the country that currently has the worst Ebola hotspots, Sierra Leone, is not coping at all... READ MORE›
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›
More than 100,000 people watched the fireworks display in London and other UK cities, amid heightened security... READ MORE›
But others argue that urban development is as much to blame for the floods as climate change... READ MORE›
As refugees, they are at risk of higher levels of domestic violence at home and sexual harassment when they step out... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Ebola outbreak sierra leone workers dump bodies in kenema... READ MORE›
Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›
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›
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