While the right to safe abortion has been restricted in the US, elsewhere, governments are liberalising abortion laws.
We explore youth in power. The median age of leaders is 62, but young people are pushing for change.
Rescue teams in Sierra Leone’s capital climbed the rubble of a seven-storey building to search for survivors.
Kambui Hills Forest Reserve lies in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province, an area with reserves of gold, rutile and diamonds.
Solomon Fatoma, aka Solo’s Beat, creates his music from the sounds he finds all around him.
UN agencies say double-digit inflation and stagnating local production are major drivers of the hunger crisis.
With women killed at alarming rates in Kenya, is the government doing enough to end gender-based violence?
Sierra Leone’s poorest communities have long been prey to human traffickers. Climate change is making things worse.
The former leader is charged with treason for his alleged role in a failed coup in November.
The charges against former leader Ernest Bai Koroma also include misprision of treason and two counts of harbouring.
Leaving two children behind, a pregnant Saffiatu Mansaray is pinning her hopes on reaching Europe.
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Koroma, who strongly condemned the attack, said he was ‘ready to support the police investigations to the fullest’.
The state has been showing worrying signs of deepening fragility since the contested June 2023 presidential election.
Information minister says 13 military officers arrested in relation to the weekend assault in capital Freetown.
