Tag: Sierra Leone

The US Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk has made port calls in The Gambia and Sierra Leone under its forward deployment to the US Naval...

As a brutal civil war raged in neighboring Liberia in 1991, Sierra Leone’s long-standing government corruption and weakness inched the nation closer and closer...

Sierra Leone's parliament voted unanimously on Friday to repeal the death penalty more than two decades after the West African country carried out its...

The Sierra Leone Defence Force Maritime Wing has taken delivery of four patrol boats that were donated by the government of South Korea. The four...

At least four people including a teenager were killed and ten wounded when police and soldiers opened fire on protesters in northern Sierra Leone,...

Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio accused the main opposition party of orchestrating a spate of violent incidents, deepening a political standoff that risks...

Smoke billowed from the central prison in Sierra Leone’s capital and gunfire was heard after a riot following confirmation of a coronavirus case. Inmates at...

In August last year, a group of frustrated fishermen from Sierra Leone took the law into their own hands when they tangled with a...

A former Sierra Leone defense minister and his deputy were arrested on Friday as part of a crackdown by President Julius Maada Bio's administration...

The Sierra Leone government terminated a $400 million scheme to build a new airport with Chinese labour and loans, according to a...

For African countries, improving the security outlook does not require better weapons or larger defense budgets. Instead, the precarious balance of national...

Thirteen people were killed and at least 30 injured when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the...

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio will launch a commission to investigate accusations of widespread corruption under his predecessor Ernest Koroma, government...

Opposition candidate and former military junta leader Julius Maada Bio was sworn in as Sierra Leone's new president late on Wednesday, just...

Election authorities in Sierra Leone accused police of intimidating staff and obstructing their work as they prepared for next week's presidential run-off...

Soldiers and volunteers with shovels and pickaxes dug through the perilous site of a mudslide in Sierra Leone in search of hundreds...

Four illegal fishing cases have been found during a joint surveillance mission conducted by Greenpeace and Sierra Leone fishery authorities. Two Chinese and...

From the jungles of Sierra Leone to the shores of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, Britain has stepped up its support to...

Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner in Nigeria has been kidnapped in the northern state of Kaduna, a security source and an embassy...

Sierra Leone was holding 11 Guineans including military personnel in custody on Wednesday following a confrontation at sea involving the two West...

Police fired guns and teargas on the headquarters of an opposition party and arrested supporters during celebrations for Sierra Leone's Independence Day...

Sierra Leone's government helped British private security service firms recruit former child soldiers to work as guards in Iraq from 2009, said...

Flintlock 2016, U.S. Africa Command's annual exercise for Special Operations Forces, came to a close during a ceremony on 29 February in...

Two weeks ago, Sierra Leone's Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Samuel Omar Williams announced that the Liberian government would send a...

The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, on 11 November commissioned the newly acquired Fisheries Patrol Vessel PV Sorie Ibrahim Koroma,...

Spanish authorities have arrested a American man on charges of enslavement and diamond pillaging during Sierra Leone's civil war, a victims' association...

A military court in Sierra Leone has acquitted 13 soldiers accused of plotting to seize and kill President Ernest Bai Koroma in...

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Argus has been honoured by the United Kingdom Defence Secretary as she heads back to the...

Sierra Leone's army chief on Monday ordered soldiers to remain in their barracks and warned them to steer clear of a political...

South Africa's wider health sector, including the military, has and is contributing to the fight against Ebola. Earlier this month the SA Military...

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 6,331 in the three worst hit countries, with Sierra...

Canada will send up to 40 military staff to Sierra Leone to help battle Ebola, the government said on Thursday as it...

Three Merlin helicopters belonging to the Royal Navy have assisted Ebola victims in Sierra Leone through the delivery of supplies to medical...

Sierra Leone appealed to the United States on Wednesday to send military aid to help it battle Ebola as it falls behind...

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa's three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, has risen to 5...

Authorities in Sierra Leone imposed a curfew in the eastern town of Koidu on Tuesday after a dispute between youth and police...

A military medic at Sierra Leone's peacekeeping training centre in the capital Freetown has tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, the...

A battalion of 800 Sierra Leone soldiers awaiting deployment as peacekeepers in Somalia has been placed in quarantine after one of its...

The first of three Boeing 747 cargo aircraft, arranged by European Union (EU) funding, will today take off from Amsterdam carrying 100...

Britain will send 750 troops to West African state Sierra Leone to help build an Ebola treatment centre, after a meeting of...

The death toll from the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has risen to at least 3 091 out of 6 574...

A team burying Ebola victims was attacked in Sierra Leone's capital on Saturday a member of parliament said, as some residents defied...

Sierra Leone, which is battling to contain the deadly Ebola virus, will stop new rotations of its U.N.-led forces into Somalia for...

Sierra Leone's parliament has made the harbouring of Ebola victims a crime punishable by two years' jail in an attempt to stop...

The African Union (AU) says it will have a joint civilian/military deployment in place by month-end to tackle the emergency situation caused...

South Africa said on Thursday that due to fears over the spread of the Ebola virus it was banning travellers from Guinea,...

International agencies are looking into emergency food drops and truck convoys to reach hungry people in Liberia and Sierra Leone who are...

Guinea closed its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia on Saturday in a bid to halt the spread of an Ebola epidemic...

The army blockaded on Thursday rural areas in Sierra Leone that have been hit by the deadly Ebola virus, a senior officer...

Poverty, then war, and now, a deadly plague. Among the world's poorest states at the bottom of global development indexes, Sierra Leone, Liberia...