Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone’s Single Leg Amputee Sports Association football team was created in 2002 at the end of the warGallery
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Other lives: Educationist and politician in Sierra Leone who began her teaching career in Leeds in the 1950s
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Across the continent, young Africans are using their unique local knowledge and bargaining power to challenge beliefs about female genital mutilation
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As illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless
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Maseray Sei, 21, was found dead after undergoing the procedure in a centuries-old ritual carried out by a secret society for women
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Rising temperatures are already killing people in Sierra Leone’s Freetown, says Eugenia Kargbo, who is planning how best to protect the hundreds of thousands living in informal settlements
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At least 92 people were killed and dozens more injured in the capital, Freetown, when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, according to local authorities
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Crowds had reportedly gathered to collect leaking fuel after a bus struck the tanker in a Freetown suburb
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MPs vote unanimously for abolition, making it the 23rd African state to end capital punishment
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4 out of 5 stars.
Sing, Freetown review – astonishing study of creative pain and pride in Sierra Leone
4 out of 5 stars.This special film follows a journalist and a theatre-maker as they attempt to reframe their national identity on stage, even as the project threatens their long friendship -
Female genital mutilation has revived under Covid but activists are pushing hard to save girls at risk
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A blaze ripped through the overcrowded settlement of Susan’s Bay in Freetown in March. Photographer Henry Kamara documents the aftermathGallery
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Controversial deal with China would be disastrous for fishing and protected rainforest, say opponents
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Women from Sierra Leone tricked into servitude find themselves sold on under Gulf’s kafala system
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With medical resources diverted to the pandemic, years of progress in children’s healthcare are under threat
Opinion The young taxi bikers killed in Freetown’s fuel blast died trying to scrape a living