Inside the war on kush: The drug ‘mixed with human bones’ taking over Sierra Leone – video
Opinion
Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM
Josephine Kamara
April 2024
Mohamed came to Australia as a teenager. Now, he faces being deported to a country he doesn’t know
After almost a decade in immigration detention Mohamed Coker was told he would be put on a plane to Sierra Leone within hours
March 2024
Cotton Capital: ongoing series
It’s not unpatriotic to tell the whole truth about Britain and the end of slavery
Idris Elba reveals ‘dream’ of building eco city on island off Sierra Leone
February 2024
Anti-FGM caravan embarks on 7,400-mile campaign to end cutting in Africa
Three girls die after FGM rituals in Sierra Leone
November 2023
Sierra Leone imposes nationwide curfew after armed clashes in capital
Government says attempt to break into an armoury in Freetown has been repelled and calm restored
October 2023
Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women
Eight of the world’s most amazing trees – from the Major Oak to the Lone Cypress
September 2023
‘It’s like smoking poison’: Sierra Leone’s youth battle addiction to a mystery drug
‘It is for us, who will give birth here’: the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone’s new maternity unit
August 2023
Foreign aid cuts are a disaster for women
Letters: Britain’s foreign aid cuts are having dire consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable women and children, writes Prof Geeta Nargund. Plus, Lib Dem peer Malcolm Bruce on the transformational effect of aid spending
June 2023
Woman killed at opposition party HQ during Sierra Leone elections
The nurse was shot at the APC building in Freetown, as government forces fired bullets and teargas to trap opposition party members – including the presidential candidate – inside
May 2023
Sierra Leone’s symbolic Cotton Tree falls during storm in Freetown
‘Suffocating intimidation’: female politicians in Sierra Leone on sexism and abuse
March 2023
‘I’ve seen hell’: the allegations rocking women’s football in Sierra Leone
Behind the fanfare of James Cleverly’s visit to Sierra Leone, the need to restore aid is starkly apparent
February 2023
Fifa investigating former Sierra Leone Women’s coach over harassment claims
Fifa is investigating allegations of sexual harassment by the former coach of the Sierra Leone women’s national team
January 2023
A common condition
‘Patients were chained to walls and beds’: Freetown’s psychiatric hospital released from the past
The Sierra Leone capital’s colonial-era asylum has modernised, offering psychotherapy, yoga and basketball as well as drugs – and has thrown away its shackles
