SIERRA Leone has recalled its ambassador from neighbouring Guinea after seven suitcases containing suspected cocaine were found in an embassy…
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SIERRA Leone has reported its first confirmed case of mpox since the world’s highest alert level for the potentially deadly…
RESCUERS in Sierra Leone are continuing to search for more survivors after a seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Freetown,…
ELECTRICITY supplies have been restored to Sierra Leone following weeks of power cuts, after it paid off part of the…
SIERRA Leone’s capital, Freetown, and other cities have been plunged into darkness for weeks, due to the non-payment of electricity…
SIERRA Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday that drug abuse in the country was a “national emergency”, outlining plans…
SIERRA Leone’s former president is headed to Nigeria for medical treatment despite being due to stand trial for his alleged…
TWENTY-SEVEN soldiers in Sierra Leone on Monday appeared before a court-martial which charged them with mutiny over their alleged role…
SIERRA Leone on Tuesday charged 12 people with treason and other offences for their roles in what authorities have called…
F.A OIL Limited, a company owned by Nigerian billionaire and Africa’s richest woman, Folorunso Alakija, has been awarded exploration rights…
A WEST African delegation led by the leaders of Senegal and Ghana were in Sierra Leone on Saturday to lay…
A SIERRA Leone court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Samura Kamara, opposition leader and runner-up in last June’s presidential…
THIRTEEN soldiers were among the 19 killed during Sunday’s violence in Sierra Leone, which saw gunmen attacking a military barracks…
SIERRA Leone has been placed under a nationwide curfew after armed men broke into prisons, setting inmates free. Detainees from…
THE president of Sierra Leone on Friday accused the United States of pressuring him to interfere in his country’s June…
THE streets of Sierra Leone’s capital were quiet on Wednesday, a day after President Julius Maada Bio was sworn in…
THE former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, and the immediate past vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, have led electoral observers in the…
SIERRA Leoneans are awaiting general election results following a tense campaign marred by violence. There was a high turnout, with…
SIERRA Leoneans are voting in a general election following a tense campaign marred by violence. On Wednesday, the main opposition…
PEOPLE are rushing to markets in Sierra Leone’s capital to stock up on food ahead of elections on Saturday, residents…