The Latest Breaking News from Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone declares state of emergency due to second mpox case. Learn about the outbreak and preventive measures in place.

Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people from across western Africa and the Americas made it their home.

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, held hearings in mid-December 2024 on the legal obligations that governments have under international law to protect the environment and limit climate change. It’s the biggest case the court has ever heard. The court is expected to hand down a legal…

Hundreds of migrant workers in Lebanon are waiting to be repatriated after the ceasefire ending the war between the Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Israel went into effect last month

Girl from Sierra Leone is only person rescued after shipwreck that is feared to have killed more than 40 people

Since its inception in 2019, a U.S. development agency has created a portfolio of more than $50 billion worth of projects in 114 countries, including a trans-Africa railway corridor, a power plant in Sierra Leone, and solar panel manufacturing in India

Sierra Leone launches nationwide Ebola vaccine campaign targeting 20,000 frontline workers after devastating 2014 outbreak.

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine