Sierra Leone, Africa

Over half the prisoners in Sierra Leone’s jails have not been sentenced, according to recently released survey data from the Sierra Leonean human...

Sierra Leone has one of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the world. Among the myriad problems mothers there face is a lack of skilled,...

The families of Mr Okes Roberts, Mrs Avis Manga, the Roberts family, Mrs Nancy Johnson and family regret to announce the death of Mrs Lucy...

The Sierra Leone government has called for an inquiry into unrest over diamond-mining operations in the east of the country after residents were...

At age 16 Musu was forced to marry a man twice her age. Seven years later, she has three children she can barely feed and scars from regular beatings...

At a mass rally held in Makeni in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone today, Amnesty International members and hundreds of other local activists...

Freetown is one of the wettest capital cities in the world and yet even in the midst of heavy downpours its taps are often dry. The result is...

A deadly cholera epidemic has broken out in several regions of Sierra Leone. Since the first week of September at least 523 people have been...

Salimatu Thoronka had both her legs cut off by rebels in 1999 when she was 19 years old. She is now training to become a seamstress in Makeni in a...

With only 19 percent of children in school following Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, the former government began an ambitious project to...