“War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone” depicts the everyday struggles of women trying to improve their lives, while illuminating the political, legal and ...

How Liberia and Sierra Leone ended their cycles of violence The lessons two African countries offer on ending intractable conflicts ...

Similarly, in Sierra Leone, following a 10-year internal conflict between 1991-2002, Sierra Leone returned to peace. As the country rebuilt institutions, the economy experienced wild swings in GDP ...

Land disputes in Sierra Leone are a complex issue, dating back decades. Weak land tenure systems, rapid urbanisation and population growth, poverty, inequality, corruption and weak governance are ...

Sierra Leone’s ratification of UNESCO’s culture conventions reflects the spirit of shared responsibility to protect and promote culture for future generations.

The small Western African state earlier this month concluded a round of seismic research that it now hopes would lure ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...

Sierra Leone scores poorly on the Gender Inequality Index, ranking 181st of the 191 countries included and has a high rate of gender-based violence. Health crises, conflict, corruption, poor ...

Sierra Leone's political economy of post-conflict peacebuilding favours macro-economic security that is to trickle down into social and political peace. Discourse analysis shows that, framed within ...