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FREETOWN, (June 21, 2024) – Sierra Leone has passed a historic bill to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalize the widespread practice.

Sierra Leone has recorded 125 cases of mpox—29 females and 96 males—with 71 active cases and 52 recoveries and two fatalities, according to reports from the National Public Health Agency (NPHA).

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family ...

After a foot abscess prevented champion 3-year-old male Sierra Leone from running in the $20 million Saudi Cup (G1), he appears set to make his 4-year-old debut March 22 in the $500,000 New ...

The drug has long been widely rumoured to contain everything from rat poison to acetone and human bones and to be made fully in Sierra Leone. Instead, the tests, requested by the Sierra Leone ...

A former Canadian politician has resigned from his role as Honorary Consul for Sierra Leone in protest of the country’s continued detention of Hawa Hunt, a Calgary woman jailed since December ...

His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has presided over the signing ceremony of a €35 million financing agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the European Union (EU) at State ...

Cocaine/Kush intake has sharply increased across Sierra Leone – from urban cities into rural communities. With vulnerable youth and young girls greatly involve in the consumption of this harmful ...

Sierra Leone's information ministry said Sunday it was investigating media reports that European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers is in the country and benefiting from high-level protection there.

Air Sierra Leone, has resumed its scheduled flight operations between Lagos and Freetown after over 15 years of inactiveness. Air Sierra Leone returned to Nigeria in partnership with a Nigerian ...

Sierra Leone was one of the countries hardest hit by Ebola, which ravaged west Africa a decade ago in an epidemic killing some 4,000 people, including nearly seven percent of health workers ...