Sierra Leone News

Sylvia has become the second housemate to be officially evicted from the Big Brother house.

STUDENT Sylvia has tonight become the second contestant to be voted out of the Big Brother house.

The aid workers who provided food, healthcare and shelter to internally displaced people during Sierra Leone's civil war are long-gone from this muddy, rubbish-strewn community of tin-roofed lean-to's and open ...

Nigeria has a battalion of approximately 800 soldiers ready to deploy to Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping force and could send more if needed, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Irish exploration company West African Diamonds, which is listed on London's AIM market, has confirmed that it has received an approach which may lead to a takeover of the company.

Tim Bowles, the Director of International Development of Youth for Human Rights International , recently returned from West Africa where he is working to implement sweeping human rights reforms.

When Jason A. Leckerman was assigned a pro bono asylum case involving a deaf Guinean refugee, the young attorney had no idea what he was in for.

Bafana Bafana disappointed 12 000 fans at Atteridgeville's Super Stadium when they were held to a 0-0 draw by Sierra Leone and virtually ended their hopes of qualifying for the 2010 African Nations Cup finals ...

World Cup hosts South Africa face the embarrassing prospect of missing out playing in the next African Nations Cup finals after they were held to a 0-0 draw by Sierra Leone on Saturday.

Eight years after a civil war in Sierra Leone that became notorious for the extent of rape and violence committed against civilians, social workers fear that rape is more of a problem in post-conflict, ...

In the last month, AAA a reports they've seen a 14 percent increase in distress calls in the northeast.

Fact sheet on Kimberly Process that seeks to end the global trade in blood diamonds: What: The Kimberley Process is an initiative of governments, industry and civil society to stem the flow of conflict diamonds ...

In 2007, 11.4 million refugees were living outside their countries, compared with 9.9 million in 2006, the UNHCR said in its annual report.

By Nkareng Matshe in Freetown, Sierra Leone Bafana go into today's Nations Cup qualifier against Sierre Leone with a defence short on experience.

On June 10, De Beers' managing director Gareth Penny delivered the following address at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C. "A Diamond in the Rough: The Role of the Private Sector in Sustainable ...

The tax system for Global System for Mobile Communications companies and foreign frequency licensees operating in Sierra Leone has sparked controversy in the media.

Slanderous news media has appeared in a government linked newspaper and a campaign of rumors has been initiated, obviously designed to undermine and isolate the Africanist Movement and its director, Chernoh ...

Chicago Defender , News Report, Leila Noelliste, Posted: Jun 10, 2008 From the outside, parking garage attendant Kobina Azhir looks like an American-born Black man.

More than 5,500 miles from Liberia, those who fled the ravaged West African country as long as three decades ago will get the chance to tell their stories on a placid college campus this week.

Fatmata Jalloh was just a kid selling pancakes on a rural road in Sierra Leone when a rebel soldier snatched her and made her his wife.

"I was a child. I didn't know anything about love at that time ... but he said, 'If you don't take me [as your husband], I'll kill you,' " she remembers.

For two years, until Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war finally ended, Ms. Jalloh was the domestic and sexual slave of her "husband." She cooked and cleaned for him; he fed and sheltered her.

"There was no way not to do it," she says. "If I would leave, I would have no food. He would kill me."