Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its jade-green shores reveals a nation with its eyes fixed on the road ahead.

The country's River Number Two Beach is generally considered to be one of the most popular across the country. The ...

It was partway through Thomas Mariee's 17-day solo packrafting descent of Sierra Leone's Rokel River, and he was hiding in ...

As we traveled along the Sierra Leone River with the buildings of Freetown in the distance, I couldn’t help but think about how my passing knowledge of Bunce was not unlike this knowledge of ...

Sierra Leone-based Njala University and Oklahoma State University, which is based in Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.A., recently ...

Occupying the seaward nib of a forested peninsula, the port city will serve as our base as we explore the islands of the Sierra Leone River and the coastal communities of the wider Western Area ...

At the nearby Tasso Ecotourism Project, an island in the Sierra Leone River Estuary, guests stay in rustic timber chalets to enjoy birdwatching and community tourism designed to help islanders ...

Thousands of Africans were captured, enslaved, and transported across the Atlantic, many passing through Bunce Island, a notorious slave-trading post near the Sierra Leone River. This dark period ...

In December, Sierra Leone signed a pact with China Road and Bridge Corporation to build an 8-km (5-mile) bridge crossing the river separating the capital Freetown from the country's main airport ...