Sierra Leone, Africa

Tens of thousands of hectares of fertile farm land lie fallow in Sierra Leone, while tens of thousands of able-bodied men are unemployed. There are...

On 17 September, following what observers say were largely peaceful and fair elections, the former ruling party candidate Solomon Berewa conceded...

A decade of civil war left Sierra Leone’s administration in tatters but when the Catholic diocese in the former rebel stronghold of Makeni set up...

Despite allegations that the two parties in Sierra Leone’s 8 September final round of presidential elections were fomenting violence in the run-up...

In Sierra Leone’s closely fought presidential election both sides are in their own ways vying for the support of the Kamajors, a former civil...

The Sierra Leone elections that were praised by internal and external observers recently are to face a crucial run-off tomorrow. The election is...

With an estimated 72,490 fighters disarmed in less than two years, observers agree Sierra Leone now has surprisingly few weapons for a country that...

Sierra Leone’s run-off elections are becoming increasingly chaotic with reports of violent clashes between political activists dogging the political...

The risk that Sierra Leone could again descend into the chaos and civil war of the 1990s remains unlikely ahead of the second round of presidential...