FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone 's capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she ...

And yet, among the 50 people — majority of whom are kush users — who filed into one of Sierra Leone’s two government-run rehab centers on a recent day, only three were women. Only 300 people ...

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment popular Nigerian influencer, Jarvis Jadrolita, visited a school in Sierra Leone. Netizens reacted.

“Even though I made a mistake, this mistake is saving other people,” Jusu said. Sierra Leone could become the second country in West Africa to decriminalize abortion, which health workers say ...

At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of decomposing waste. Zainab sits there, squinting through the soot. It is her usual spot for buying kush, a cheap ...