But with 300 miles of beaches, Sierra Leone can claim self-sufficiency in sand. Unlike desert sand, which it too fine to use in concrete, beach sand is in high demand worldwide.

The death toll from massive mudslides in Sierra Leone's capital was certain to rise Tuesday as bodies washed up on a beach and workers searched for an untold number of people buried in their homes ...

Ib Kamara's guide to Freetown, Sierra Leone: Tokeh Beach, cassava leaf stew and Empire nightclub - The creative director at Off-White and editor-in-chief of Dazed tells Joe Bromley about the city ...

There were once 500 homes on Nyangai Island. Now, ... During times of upheaval, from Sierra Leone’s civil war in the 1990s to the ... the mining of beach sand for construction. In 2021, the ...

Authorities in Sierra Leone plan to conduct house-to-house searches around the capital, Freetown, to look for hidden Ebola patients. Freetown has become a center of the West African Ebola outbreak ...

A hillside in Regent, Sierra Leone, collapsed after a heavy downpour on Monday, burying many houses, Reuters reported. Officials have said that it is too early to estimate the number of casualties ...