Tag: Sierra Leone
US Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk visits The Gambia, 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...
Sierra Leone’s security sector reform emphasizes inclusivity
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 parliament votes to abolish death penalty
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...
Sierra Leone Armed Forces takes delivery of four patrol boats
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...
Four killed in Sierra Leone protest after police and army open...
At least four people including a teenager were killed and ten wounded when police and soldiers opened fire on protesters in northern Sierra Leone,...
Opposition blamed for Sierra Leone violence
Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio accused the main opposition party of orchestrating a spate of violent incidents, deepening a political standoff that risks...
Riots at Sierra Leone prison in wake of coronavirus confirmation
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...
ISS: Stemming the tide of illegal trawling in Sierra Leone
In August last year, a group of frustrated fishermen from Sierra Leone took the law into their own hands when they tangled with a...
Sierra Leone arrests former defense minister in graft crackdown
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...
No Chinese funded airport for Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leone government terminated a $400 million scheme to build a new airport with Chinese labour and loans, according to a...
Feature: A pathway to professionalism
For African countries, improving the security outlook does not require better weapons or larger defense budgets. Instead, the precarious balance of national...
Sierra Leone military truck crash leaves 13 dead
Thirteen people were killed and at least 30 injured when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the...
Government corruption in Sierra Leone to be investigated
Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio will launch a commission to investigate accusations of widespread corruption under his predecessor Ernest Koroma, government...
Julius Maada Bio sworn in as new Sierra Leone president
Opposition candidate and former military junta leader Julius Maada Bio was sworn in as Sierra Leone's new president late on Wednesday, just...
Sierra Leone police accused of obstruction
Election authorities in Sierra Leone accused police of intimidating staff and obstructing their work as they prepared for next week's presidential run-off...
Search intensifies for hundreds still missing after Sierra Leona mudslide
Soldiers and volunteers with shovels and pickaxes dug through the perilous site of a mudslide in Sierra Leone in search of hundreds...
Joint surveillance mission in Sierra Leone uncovers illegal fishing operations
Four illegal fishing cases have been found during a joint surveillance mission conducted by Greenpeace and Sierra Leone fishery authorities.
Two Chinese and...
Sierra Leone jungle training underlines Britain’s role in Africa
From the jungles of Sierra Leone to the shores of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, Britain has stepped up its support to...
Sierra Leone diplomat is kidnapped in Nigeria
Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner in Nigeria has been kidnapped in the northern state of Kaduna, a security source and an embassy...
Guinean sailors arrested after clash with Sierra Leona navy
Sierra Leone was holding 11 Guineans including military personnel in custody on Wednesday following a confrontation at sea involving the two West...
Sierra Leone police fire guns, teargas at opposition supporters
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 ‘helped deploy ex-child soldiers to Iraq’, academic says
Sierra Leone's government helped British private security service firms recruit former child soldiers to work as guards in Iraq from 2009, said...
AFRICOM commander speaks at Flintlock closing ceremony
Flintlock 2016, U.S. Africa Command's annual exercise for Special Operations Forces, came to a close during a ceremony on 29 February in...
Sierra Leone and China deepen military cooperation
Two weeks ago, Sierra Leone's Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Samuel Omar Williams announced that the Liberian government would send a...
Sierra Leone commissions maritime surveillance vessel
The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, on 11 November commissioned the newly acquired Fisheries Patrol Vessel PV Sorie Ibrahim Koroma,...
American arrested on Sierra Leone “blood diamond” charges
Spanish authorities have arrested a American man on charges of enslavement and diamond pillaging during Sierra Leone's civil war, a victims' association...
Sierra Leone court acquits 13 soldiers accused of mutiny
A military court in Sierra Leone has acquitted 13 soldiers accused of plotting to seize and kill President Ernest Bai Koroma in...
RFA Argus completes Sierra Leone deployment
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Argus has been honoured by the United Kingdom Defence Secretary as she heads back to the...
Sierra Leone army confines troops to barracks amid political crisis
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 still contributing to the fight against Ebola
South Africa's wider health sector, including the military, has and is contributing to the fight against Ebola.
Earlier this month the SA Military...
Sierra Leone overtakes Liberia in Ebola cases
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 6,331 in the three worst hit countries, with Sierra...
Canada to deploy military health staff to Sierra Leone in Ebola...
Canada will send up to 40 military staff to Sierra Leone to help battle Ebola, the government said on Thursday as it...
UK Merlin helicopters deliver Ebola aid
Three Merlin helicopters belonging to the Royal Navy have assisted Ebola victims in Sierra Leone through the delivery of supplies to medical...
Sierra Leone seeks U.S. military help to fight Ebola
Sierra Leone appealed to the United States on Wednesday to send military aid to help it battle Ebola as it falls behind...
Ebola death tolls tops 5 000
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa's three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, has risen to 5...
Curfew in Sierra Leone town after rioting, shooting over Ebola case
Authorities in Sierra Leone imposed a curfew in the eastern town of Koidu on Tuesday after a dispute between youth and police...
Sierra Leone military medic tests positive for Ebola
A military medic at Sierra Leone's peacekeeping training centre in the capital Freetown has tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, the...
Sierra Leone peacekeepers bound for Somalia quarantined over Ebola
A battalion of 800 Sierra Leone soldiers awaiting deployment as peacekeepers in Somalia has been placed in quarantine after one of its...
EU airlift to Ebola affected West Africa underway
The first of three Boeing 747 cargo aircraft, arranged by European Union (EU) funding, will today take off from Amsterdam carrying 100...
Britain to send 750 troops to Sierra Leone as part of...
Britain will send 750 troops to West African state Sierra Leone to help build an Ebola treatment centre, after a meeting of...
Ebola death toll passes 3 000
The death toll from the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has risen to at least 3 091 out of 6 574...
Sierra Leone Ebola burial team attacked
A team burying Ebola victims was attacked in Sierra Leone's capital on Saturday a member of parliament said, as some residents defied...
Ebola fears halt rotations of Sierra Leone forces into Somalia
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 makes harbouring Ebola victims a crime
Sierra Leone's parliament has made the harbouring of Ebola victims a crime punishable by two years' jail in an attempt to stop...
AU to help fight Ebola
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 bans travellers entering from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
South Africa said on Thursday that due to fears over the spread of the Ebola virus it was banning travellers from Guinea,...
Emergency food drops possible for quarantined Ebola region of West Africa
International agencies are looking into emergency food drops and truck convoys to reach hungry people in Liberia and Sierra Leone who are...
Guinea shuts borders with Sierra Leone, Liberia in bid to halt...
Guinea closed its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia on Saturday in a bid to halt the spread of an Ebola epidemic...
Sierra Leone army blockades Ebola areas, Liberia declares emergency
The army blockaded on Thursday rural areas in Sierra Leone that have been hit by the deadly Ebola virus, a senior officer...
Ebola sucks life from West African states weakened by war, poverty
Poverty, then war, and now, a deadly plague.
Among the world's poorest states at the bottom of global development indexes, Sierra Leone, Liberia...