KAILAHUN, Sierra Leone, May 14 (UNHCR) - As people all over Sierra Leone go to the polls today, many of the country's refugees have already voted - with their feet - for the future of their homeland. ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – Sierra Leone held its first elections Saturday since U.N. peacekeepers left nearly two years ago, a vote that will test whether the diamond-rich West African country can ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - A framed photograph from Sierra Leone's civil war hangs in an office in the ramshackle capital Freetown, showing former junta leader Maada Bio in military dress. Below the picture ...

September 2025: Let me start with a simple observation: politics in Sierra Leone is rarely black and white. The Electoral Justice (EJ) issue is no ...

In Sierra Leone, free speech is not a Western abstraction. It is a lived and dangerous aspiration, often bruised by the whims of the ...

Sierra Leone’s Julius Maada Bio, who led the 1996 coup to restore democracy, is now ECOWAS chair tasked with pushing Sahel junta talks.