Sierra Leone will wait for the results of a recently-launched offshore 3D seismic survey, its first in over a decade, ahead of potentially opening its next oil and gas licensing round later this year, ...

Sierra Leone has taken a crucial step toward achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). On May 6, 2025, the Ministry of ...

Sierra Leone faces a Clade II mpox outbreak, driving urgent health action and global calls for vaccine and response support.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...

The inhabitants of Nyangai, located in the Turtle Islands off southern Sierra Leone, are widely considered the country's ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot on the UN cultural ...

Sierra Leone’s President Maada Bio has described a foiled assault on a military barracks in the capital Freetown as an ... The news sparked fears of another potential coup attempt in West Africa.

That’s why last month, when Sierra Leone held the rotating presidency of the Security Council, I told fellow world leaders that Africa cannot wait any longer; it is absurd for the most powerful ...

Hawa Kamara made history today as the first woman from Sierra Leone to enter the Miss Universe beauty pageant. Blood diamonds, civil war and then an Ebola crisis have all held the West African ...

The most exciting place to visit in Africa right now is an off-the-beaten-path nation better known for making tragic headlines than attracting tourists: Welcome to a splashy new Sierra Leone.

In Sierra Leone, a coastal nation of eight million people, 80 percent of the population relies on fish as a source of animal protein. Every day, hundreds of fishermen leave its pristine beaches to ...