Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

“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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Sierra Leone is gearing up for crucial presidential elections on Saturday amid growing discontent and calls for change from its citizens.

Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa, has a special significance in the history of the transatlantic slave trade as the departure point for thousands of west African captives. The capital ...

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday he is "particularly concerned" over a possible spillover of the Sierra Leone conflict into Liberia and Guinea ...