To help girls find alternatives to early marriage and pregnancy, United Nations Population Fund is helping to put guidance counsellors in nearly 200 junior secondary schools. Read more »
Sierra Leone is overcoming the problems of the past including war and Ebola and building a democractic future, President Julius Maada Bio said during a visit to the United States. ... Read more »
Borders between Liberia and next-door neighbours Guinea and Sierra Leone are a cause for concern for authorities, who are hampered in their attempts at collecting revenue, ... Read more »
As of mid-December there have been more than 500 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, of which two-thirds are women. In Beni - one of the hardest hit areas - it's the women ... Read more »
The decision marks the first time in Sierra Leone's history that a community has been able to win back land leased to a foreign company, lawyers say. Read more »
President Julius Maada Bio promised to introduce free quality education during his election campaign and has said he would donate three months of his own salary to the cause. Under ... Read more »
Liberians close to the Sierra Leone border are anxious after the recent announcement by researchers that a new strain of the viral hemorrhagic fever had been found. Read more »
The Senate will investigate reports of alleged sexual abuse of women at internally displaced persons camps in the northeast and other parts of the country. Read more »
Kadiatu Koroma who lived in Congo Town which was hit by the worst flooding-related disasters to hit Africa in 2017, says they had no idea that that area was disaster-prone. Koroma ... Read more »
As new MPs were being sworn in after the general elections, members of the opposition disrupted proceedings because 16 of their MPs were told to leave due to high court injunctions ... Read more »
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