News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Center Girls’ Voices in Education Reforms
The Sierra Leone government should prioritize the views and experiences of girls to advance its education reforms, Human Rights Watch and Purposeful said today in a new report. Despite the government’s important progress on access to education for girls, many girls who are pregnant, living in poverty, or in rural areas remain at risk of exclusion from school.
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone drops treason charge against ex-president
Sierra Leone's government has dropped its charges, including treason, against ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was arrested in connection with an attempted coup nearly three years ago. The charges ...
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone court issues warrant for arms dealer
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a top ally of former Liberian President Charles Taylor who was recently found living in Freetown, though a lawyer involved in the case expressed concern that the suspect may no longer be in the country. Ibrahim Bah has been accused of […]
News Sierra Leone: The buried voices that still sing
Mabinty Kamara gives voice to women who have survived gender-based violence at work in mines across Sierra Leone, to try and stop it happening again.
News Sierra Leone: Only Authoritarians Fear International Justice
The United States once stood as the principal architect of modern international criminal justice, from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ad hoc tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for ...
News Sierra Leone: Chinese medical team establishes nursing training base in Sierra Leone
The China-Sierra Leone Nursing Training Center was officially launched at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital in Freetown on Friday. Primarily managed by the 27th batch of the Chinese medical ...
News Sierra Leone: Uncovering untold stories in Sierra Leone
Journalists trained by BBC Media Action are exposing the human toll of mining in Sierra Leone and pushing for change.
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone
A diplomatic source, who requested anonymity due to their position, told AFP that economic interests largely fuelled Sierra Leone's environmental drive - with international climat ...
News Sierra Leone: One Week in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is not your usual travel destination—at least not yet. The country has endured a fair degree of setbacks, from its role at the heart of the transatlantic slave trade, Ebola outbreaks, and ...
News Sierra Leone: Guinea releases 16 soldiers and police officers from Sierra Leone after border dispute
Guinea on Friday released 16 soldiers and police officers from neighboring Sierra Leone who were arrested earlier this week in a border dispute, Sierra Leonean authorities said. “All security officer...
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone: Politics of Deforestation – Rogue Minister
A senior politician facilitated illegal encroachment on a national park in Sierra Leone so elites could build mansions. The president sat ...
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone officials facilitated illegal mansion-building in a key national park
An investigation shows that illegal luxury mansions have been built in a Sierra Leone national park that serves as an environmental buffer for its capital.
News Sierra Leone: The silence of the lambs: Why Sierra Leone’s legal guardians must not stand aside
In Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals ...
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone’s unfinished Constitution and the cost of ignoring national wealth
Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution was drafted to dismantle the 1978 one-party state and restore multiparty constitutional rule. That ...
News Sierra Leone: Who paid the Price for 6th January 1999 and who will pay again? Op ed
Sixth January nineteen ninety-nine is not merely a historical reference. It is a national scar. It is the day Sierra Leone lost control ...
News Sierra Leone: The Age of Aggression: How Strongman Politics Is Dismantling the Post-1945 Order
Across the past eight decades, the international community has experienced successive 'waves' of atrocity accountability—periods in which global norms either strengthened or eroded in the face of ...
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone community's suit against diamond miner shows activist trend
The complaint, filed in Sierra Leone's High Court in March ... up from sixteen filed between 1998 and 2008, according to data from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), a UK-based ...
News Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone’s battleground: how do you survive your country’s war?
Much of the money I made from my business partners was used to support my parents. My life during the rebel war in Sierra Leone was difficult, although similar to the experiences of other innocent ...
