Explore the incredible and very different stories of Botswana and Sierra Leone,two African nations that took vastly different paths despite their resources and potential. Botswana, a small and largely ...

The government’s decision to create new districts—without clear legal backing, public consultation, or economic justification ...

Sierra Leone faces a worsening environmental emergency as rampant deforestation devastates the Western Area Peninsula ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The partnership between the Michigan National Guard and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) took another step forward April 11-18 with three separate ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone ‘s capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of decomposing waste. Zainab sits there, squinting through the soot.

having suffered extensive damage during Sierra Leone’s civil war and a fire in 1999. It is one of the few remaining historic landmarks in the capital of Freetown. The WMF has been working on ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family ...

After 15 years of hiatus, Air Sierra Leone, on Wednesday, successfully made its inaugural flight from Freetown to Lagos. According to the airline’s authority, the historic flight signifies a ...

Milo Gough has received funding from the AHRC through CHASE DTP. Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ...

Jody Ray reports. On a humid March morning this year, police officers came to the scenic Hill Station neighbourhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone to evict civil servants living in historic board houses.

A beach in Freetown. Sierra Leone's roughly 250 miles of coastline remains largely unexplored by international visitors. Photo Credit: Maada S. Kpenge/Shutterstock Sierra Leone is entering an ...