Sierra Leone: Ex-president’s guard, 11 others charged over failed coup
- 03-Jan-2024
FREETOWN: Sierra Leone authorities have charged 12 people with treason in connection with a failed coup in November, including a member of former President Ernest Bai Koroma’s security detail, the government said on Tuesday. Gunmen attacked a military barracks, a prison and other locations in Sierra Leone on Nov. 26, freeing about 2,200 inmates and […]
‘We need help’: Sierra Leone faces hardship amid Ukraine war
- 19-Apr-2022
Iyesatu Turay, who lives in a sprawling slum of corrugated-iron shacks in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, says she doesn’t have enough food to feed her family. Life is a struggle for many in the Kroo Bay slum, where pigs mingle with stray dogs in the debris-strewn alleys of the shantytown, which straddles an open sewer. […]
Fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone kills at least 91
- 06-Nov-2021
Ninety-one people were killed and over 100 wounded in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said. The government has not yet confirmed the death toll, but the manager of the central state morgue in Freetown said it had received 91 […]
Idris Elba conferred Sierra Leone citizenship
- 21-Dec-2019
Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio conferred the passport to Elba at an emotional private ceremony at his colonial-era residence in the capital Freetown
Sierra Leone’s soldiers heal trauma with yoga
- 05-Nov-2019
Among the trainers at the Freetown army yoga session is Lance Corporal Michael Kargbo who first joined in 2014 to try and cope with his past as a child soldier
More than 200 killed in Sierra Leone as mudslide sweeps away homes
- 15-Aug-2017
FREETOWN: A mudslide killed more than 200 people on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes and leaving residents desperate for news of missing family members. The Red Cross said at least 205 bodies had been taken to the central morgue in Freetown. Police and military personnel were at the […]
West Africa marks end of recent Ebola outbreak
- 09-Jun-2016
MONROVIA:Liberia said it was free of Ebola, meaning there are now no known cases of the deadly tropical virus left in west Africa following an outbreak that began in neighbouring Guinea in December 2013.
Ebola end in sight
- 06-May-2015
DAKAR: The two African countries still battling Ebola have both recorded weekly infections in single figures for the first time since the peak of the epidemic, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Sierra Leone quarantines 700 homes after Ebola case
- 14-Feb-2015
FREETOWN: Sierra Leone placed hundreds of homes in the capital under Ebola quarantine Friday, in a huge blow for its recovery less than a month after it lifted all restrictions on movement.
Britain becomes first country to donate to IMF Ebola debt relief fund
- 09-Feb-2015
LONDON: Britain said on Monday it would contribute 50 million dollars to a new IMF fund to help West African countries hit by Ebola to service their debts so they can use their own money to help save lives.