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African leaders in Sierra Leone played a key role in ending the transatlantic slave trade

Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves who were returned to Africa by British members of the movement to end slavery. Founded in 1787 by a group of 400 black Britons from London, the colony ultimately became a refuge for…

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Familiar faces, concerns linger ahead of Sierra Leone’s June vote

Ahead of the June 24 poll, a rematch of the 2018 vote, identity issues and economic stagnation are also on the ballot.

Al Jazeera

Storm fells Sierra Leone's historic cotton tree, a symbol of freedom

A giant tree that towered over Sierra Leone's capital for centuries and symbolised freedom to its early residents crashed down overnight during a heavy rainstorm.

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Sierra Leone leader urges end of Ukraine war for 'sake of humanity'

Freetown (AFP) - Sierra Leone's president expressed hope in an AFP interview that a new African mediation mission would help end Russia's war in Ukraine which has hit the "poorest of the poor" around the world.

AFP

‘Suffocating intimidation’: female politicians in Sierra Leone on sexism and abuse

As the country gears up for polls in June, women in politics speak out about refusing to be silenced despite the abuse and intimidation they face

The Guardian - UK

Freetown: why you should visit the historic capital of Sierra Leone

Spectacular coastline, buzzing nightlife and charming people, Radhika Aligh explores the next must-visit city in West Africa

Evening Standard

Africa's first heat officer is based in Freetown – 5 things that should be on her agenda

Eugenia Kargbo has an unusual job: she is the city of Freetown’s chief heat officer. Her role in Sierra Leone’s capital is the first of its kind in Africa. She has been tasked with raising public awareness about extreme heat, improving responses to heat waves, and collecting, analysing and visualising…

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Sierra Leone’s pregnant teens matched with mentors to save their lives

Sex for lunch money or just to jump the queue for water – teen pregnancy is common in Sierra Leone and death rates among pregnant girls are shockingly high. 2YoungLives is a mentoring scheme that aims to help girls survive childbirth and get back to education.

Evening Standard

‘Patients were chained to walls and beds’: Freetown’s psychiatric hospital released from the past

The Sierra Leone capital’s colonial-era asylum has modernised, offering psychotherapy, yoga and basketball as well as drugs – and has thrown away its shackles

The Guardian - UK

Inflation bites into Sierra Leone's all-important 'cookeries'

Freetown (AFP) - Jariatu Kargbo hauls a wooden spoon longer than her arm through a vat of rice as customers patiently wait their turn to buy lunch on the side of a busy road.

AFP

Sierra Leone buries riot dead amid outcry

Freetown (AFP) - Twenty-seven civilians killed in August riots in Sierra Leone were buried Monday in the capital Freetown following a state-led ceremony, as families disputed police accounts of their deaths.

AFP

Sierra Leone journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay dies at 85

Journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay, who covered Sierra Leone for The Associated Press for nearly four decades including the country’s brutal civil war and the Ebola epidemic that killed thousands there, has died

The Independent UK

Houghton vet who cared for dogs owned by homeless people will travel to West Africa to help other street dogs

Rebecca Dobinson has supported dogs owned by homeless people in the North East and volunteers as a vet for Street Paws. And now she is travelling to West Africa to ease the suffering of street dogs and join the fight against rabies

Chronicle Live

Sierra Leone delays full switchover to new currency

Freetown (AFP) - Sierra Leone is to delay the phaseout of its old currency until next spring, the central bank said.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Explosion of violence’: Sierra Leone picks up the pieces after protests

At least 21 protesters and six officers have been killed as anger over the soaring cost of living spins out of control

Reuters

Freetown in shock after dozens killed in Sierra Leone protests

Dozens died in anti-government protests in Sierra Leone, police and other sources said on Thursday, sharply raising the death toll from the previous day's clashes as shocked citizens stayed mostly behind closed doors in the capital Freetown.

Reuters

At least 13 civilians killed in Sierra Leone protests, say mortuary staff

At least 13 civilians were killed in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, during anti-government protests on Wednesday, staff at the city's main mortuary said on Thursday.

AFP

S.Leone slashes 'zeros of shame' from banknotes

Freetown (AFP) - Sierra Leone on Friday introduced a new family of banknotes, stripping three zeros off the leone, in a bid to restore confidence in the inflation-hit national currency.

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Foreign Affairs

Every City Needs a Chief Heat Officer

A First Step Toward Adapting to Deadly High Temperatures

AFP

In Sierra Leone, football offers hope to amputees

Freetown (AFP) - On a sun-drenched Sierra Leone beach, a one-legged man balances on his crutches and fires the ball past a one-armed goalkeeper.

AFP

'We need help': Sierra Leone faces hardship amid Ukraine war

Freetown (AFP) - Iyesatu Turay, who lives in a sprawling slum of corrugated-iron shacks in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, says she doesn't have enough food to feed her family.

Bangkok Post

The mystery of Africa's low Covid death rates

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone: There are no Covid fears here.

The Guardian - UK

Agnes Labor obituary

Other lives: Educationist and politician in Sierra Leone who began her teaching career in Leeds in the 1950s

Inverse

'Book of Boba Fett' post-credits scene, explained: Finale reveals [SPOILERS] is alive

In the final moments of 'The Book of Boba Fett,' we got a clue as to what's next for the Marshall of Freetown. Here's what the post-credits scene means.

Liverpool Echo

Man watched as best friend was shot and killed next to him

Sam is lucky to be alive after his family were killed during war

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