However, the country has also confronted significant challenges along the way, including the Ebola epidemic of 2014–2015, the 2017 mudslide in Freetown, and the COVID-19 pandemic. We need your help to ...

Bodies recovered from the mudslide and flooding in Sierra Leone last week have totalled 499, local media reported on Sunday. Victims included 162 men, 163 women, 70 boys and 86 girls and an ...

Jan 24 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone must face a lawsuit by U.S. law firm Jenner & Block seeking to recover more than $8 million in fees from the West African country for several years of legal work ...

Sierra Leone's information ministry said Sunday it was investigating media reports that European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers is in the country and benefiting from high-level protection there.

Thomas Mariee's expedition down the Rokel River was an exercise in getting out of his comfort zone, one rapid and insect bite at a time.

Dutch prosecutors' office says Jos Leijdekkers has been living in Sierra Leone for at least six months Convicted trafficker sat near Sierra Leone's president at mass-video Leijdekkers is married ...

FREETOWN - Sierra Leone's information ministry said on Sunday it was investigating media reports that European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers is in the country and benefiting from high-level ...

The Sierra Madre neighborhood near the Eaton Fire bun scar is under a shelter in place order after mudslides created ...

One of Europe’s most wanted fugitives, convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, has found refuge and high-level protection in Sierra Leone, according to three sources with direct knowledge of ...

One of Europe's most wanted fugitives has been hiding out in the West African nation of Sierra Leone for at least six months, according to prosecutors in the Netherlands. Convicted Dutch drug ...

Dutch authorities say one of Europe's most-wanted fugitives has been living in Sierra Leone for about six months. Jos Leijdekkers, 33, was sentenced in absentia to 24 years in prison on 25 June ...

NAIROBI/THE HAGUE - One of Europe's most wanted fugitives, convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, has found refuge and high-level protection in Sierra Leone, according to three sources with ...