Sarah Culberson was raised by a white family in West Virginia, then she found out she's the princess of the Mende people in Sierra Leone. But her story isn't exactly a fairy tale.

I speak Mende (a language predominantly spoken in the south-eastern region of Sierra Leone) to my 6-month old daughter. Every now and then I translate some Mende words back to English. Since 2012 ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases surged by 71%. Roughly half of all confirmed mpox cases in Africa now come ...

STORY INFO - Through DNA analysis at www.africanancestry.com, Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts had his heritage traced to the Songhi people of Niger and the Mende people of Sierra Leone.

Once owned by an advocate for the freedom of those in slavery, the estate at 11 Mountain Spring Road, Farmington has hit the market for $3.65 million. The Georgian house was built in 1832 by John ...

Sierra Leoneans are worried by the increasing number of mpox cases and deaths that have been recorded in 2025.

What to eat. 1. Cassava leaf plasa Pounded and shredded cassava leaves are cooked in coconut oil, onions, ogiri (fermented oil seeds), butter beans, peanut butter and a little okra.

between 1750 and 1850, slavers forced a quarter of a million people aboard slave ships in the ports of sierra leone, ghostly vessels full of lost souls bound for the plantations of the americas.

The current mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone is the largest ever recorded in the country and the first major epidemic caused by the clade IIb monkeypox virus in Africa. Since a public health emergency ...

The area just outside Tiwai Island, a protected wildlife sanctuary spread across 1,200 hectares (2,900 acres) in Sierra Leone, had a dearth of bees, he found. “I observed th... advertisement ...