Sierra Leone lifted a nationwide curfew almost a month after an attack on army headquarters in the capital, Freetown, which President Julius Maada Bio said was an attempt to overthrow the government.

Sierra Leone has a population of around 8.8 million, but less than half (3.3 million) are registered to vote in this election. The country has been facing a number of issues, including a soaring ...

The government of Sierra Leone is attracting global recognition and celebrating its policies and commitments toward advancing and securing access to education for girls, in particular pregnant ...

Sierra Leone's main opposition candidate said on Friday the lack of election campaign access to some strongholds of the ruling party and unsupervised distribution of ballots could open the door to ...

A pivotal figure in Sierra Leone’s revolution in the schools is Moinina David Sengeh, 36, the dynamic minister of education, who attended Harvard as an undergraduate and then earned a Ph.D from ...

Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone, speaks at the start of the Transforming Education Summit at the United Nations headquarters, in September 2022. Bio declared a nationwide curfew after ...

Sierra Leone’s chief electoral commissioner, Mohamed Kenewui Konneh, told Reuters the disaggregated results would be uploaded to the website “in due course” but that it would take time.

The ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party has won 60% of the seats in a parliamentary election, the election commission said on Saturday, as the main opposition party demanded a rerun of the vote ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (RNS) Human rights campaigners in the West African nation are cherry-picking which rights they defend on the basis of religion, culture, and tradition, leaving LGBTQ ...

For women of Sierra Leone, additional healthcare concerns center around access to care and lack of healthcare information. Many women residing in isolated and/or rural areas are unaware of the ...

Sierra Leone is naturally endowed with an estimated 260,000 hectares (642,500 acres) of inland valley swamps, which when irrigated can be harvested three times a year for rice as well as legumes ...