One of the high points of my week was the cordial address given by Sierra Leone People's Party chairman, John Benjamin, at the All Peoples Congress Convention in Makeni. It was an especially rare ...

Liberia has extradited Sierra Leone’s former chief superintendent of police Mohammed Yaetey Turay to face prosecution in connection with an alleged failed coup in his home country. Turay was dismissed ...

Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening cooperation with Hefei, the capital of east China's Anhui Province, during a meeting on Friday.

Following an in-depth political economy analysis of three policy initiatives with significant consequences for gender ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - When she was 15, long before she became gender adviser to Sierra Leone's president, Naasu Fofanah was raped by her church pastor. With her mother's help, she had an abortion, a ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - At least 17 people were hurt in Sierra Leone in two days of clashes between supporters of rival political parties armed with rocks and machetes after a local by-election in the ...

AFA copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and ...

There is a kind of political symmetry in the emergence of Sierra Leone’s Julius Maada Bio as chairman of the Economic Community of West African States in June. It is three decades since he first ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, May 15 -- Gibril Massaquoi and Morris Kallon, until recently senior commanders of one of Africa's most brutal rebel armies, sat slumped in overstuffed chairs in their ...

From 1991 to 2002 civil war consumed Sierra Leone, killing more than 50,000 people. While the story of the war has been told in various forms (most notably the Hollywood movie Blood Diamond), far less ...