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›
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›
A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for 6.5m ?4.8m ... READ MORE›
The BRD medical college doctors insist the number of deaths has not increased... READ MORE›
David Schwendiman, an American prosecutor investigating allegations of organ trafficking and other crimes during Kosovo's independence struggle, believes the U.N... 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›
Linnee became one of the news organization's first female American bureau chiefs overseas when she was named AP's Madrid bureau chief in 1982... READ MORE›
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›
Ben Arnold 7.30pm, Channel 4 August saw flooding and landslides devastate Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
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›
Craigburn Primary School's Principal, Paul Luke, and One Girl CEO Morgan Koegel address the media... READ MORE›
President Koroma entering the Chinese Ark Peace Hospital ship Sierra Leone's Preside... READ MORE›
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›
In the aftermath of the mudslide, the Sierra Leone community of Adelaide met twice... READ MORE›
'Preventing Terrorist Use of the Internet' Several terrorism-related events are on the agenda... READ MORE›
Soul singer Sampha was named the overall winner of Britain's Mercury Prize for popular music for his debut album Process on Thursday September 14 ... READ MORE›
Exclusive As global demand for chocolate booms, 'dirty' beans from deforested national parks in Ivory Coast have entered big business supply chains... READ MORE›
Also, a month after a deadly mudslide rocked Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, killing at least 500 people, the victims of the disaster are being relocated... READ MORE›
Dr Madiebo's next task was to co-ordinate a three-week monitoring period for those Nigerian Ebola volunteers on their return... READ MORE›
Yet Italians are in way better shape than Americans, Canadians and Brits, who all suffer from higher blood pressure and cholesterol and poorer mental health... READ MORE›
More than 300 people have been killed in mudslides and flooding near Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown... READ MORE›
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A pastor in Sierra Leone has unearthed a 706-carat diamond, according to the government, in one of the largest precious stone finds ever made worldwide... READ MORE›
More than 11,000 people died in the Ebola outbreak, although 17,000 who contracted the virus survived... READ MORE›
In Mexico, youth literacy is around 98.5 percent, while adult literacy is at 93.5 percent ... READ MORE›
Prior to his mission to take Dutch water management expertise around the world, Ovink was the Netherlands' chief of water management and spatial planning ... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Paolo Conteh told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remain unaccounted for... READ MORE›
Globally, the mortality rate for young people decreased 21 percent between 2000 and 2015, with HIV-related deaths in particular falling significantly... 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›
Thousands more survivors have been left with long-term health problems and Liberia was only declared free of active Ebola virus transmission last June... 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›
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›
West African heads of state to arrive in Banjul to ask President Jammeh to step down, according to Senegalese official... READ MORE›
My husband woke me up as the water was filling the house... READ MORE›
Nordic countries sit at the top, while impoverished, fragile states such as the Central African Republic, Niger and Chad hold up the bottom... 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›
Nearly 10,000 people have died in the outbreak, the vast majority in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
In May 2010, a mudslide swept over the eastern Congo village of Kibiriga and killed 19 people... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
How geography, climate change and politics contributed to Sierra Leone's latest disaster... READ MORE›
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