A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared kush a public health emergency, but poverty and trauma are slowing efforts ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...

Idris Elba’s Sherbro Island eco-smart city gets greenlight in Sierra Leone, as he and co-founder Siaka Stevens secure support ...

Sierra Leone will wait for the results of a recently-launched offshore 3D seismic survey, ... Sierra Leone aims to be West Africa's newest oil and gas exploration frontier. By Reuters.

New ECOWAS chair Julius Maada Bio inherits a bloc grappling with jihadist violence, military coups and a shrinking circle of ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has handed over Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leadership to Sierra Leone's ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, is upbeat that the maiden West African Economic Summit (WAES) that was ...

Sierra Leone aims to be West Africa's newest oil and gas exploration frontier. In partnership with the government's petroleum directorate, consultancy GeoPartners started the six-week seismic survey ...

We saw in December 2013 when Ebola started in Guinea, it quickly spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and other non-African countries. As of early June 2025 Liberia had recorded 69 mpox cases while ...