Sierra Leone, Africa

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on September 24, 2008 lifted the news blackout it imposed on the activities of the country’s...

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on September 22, 2008 imposed a news blackout on police activities as part of a campaign to demand...

More than 10,000 slum dwellers have been affected by an 11 September storm that tore down dozens of makeshift homes in Kroo Bay, one of the city’s...

Theresa, a vivacious 16-year-old girl, last saw her parents when they were dragged away from her in a crush of people fleeing into neighbouring...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the second review of Sierra Leone's performance under a Poverty Reduction...

Eight years after a civil war in Sierra Leone that became notorious for the extent of rape and violence committed against civilians, social workers...

Unity Radio, a station run by the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), was on May 8, 2008 shut down on the orders of the Minister of Information and...

The Press Secretary to State House, Sheka Tarawally, on May 6, 2008, threatened New Vision, an independent Freetown-based newspaper, with legal...

Nine students of the University of The Gambia (UTG), have been selected to attend Scholarly Writing and Research Methodology Workshop in Freetown,...

Two babies and several gaunt women are the only patients in the gloomy wards of the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown. The hospital...