Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, is widely known as the home of formerly enslaved people – hence its name. Founded in 1787, thousands of enslaved people were either returned to or liberated in ...

RIVER NO. 2, SIERRA LEONE — The dawn rose over lushly carpeted mountains and broke gently along the miles of powdery white beach in the village improbably named River No. 2. It was Sunday and, for ...

Dignity, celebration, respect, joy. These were just some of the feelings photographer Robbie Lawrence wanted to capture in his work from Sierra Leone — a departure from the emotions we might ...

Fatimata Kamara and Salimatu Kanu, both former practitioners of female genital mutilation, pose for a picture in the clearing where their shrine used to stand, Thawuya village, Port Loko district, ...

Sierra Leone has placed 1,000 village residents under quarantine after a woman died and tested positive for Ebola. The quarantine will take place in a village in Kambia, close to the border with ...

Alex Thompson of Independent Television News reports. While panic over Ebola has mostly faded in the U.S., communities in West Africa are still completely overwhelmed by the deadly epidemic. Alex ...

THAWUYA, Sierra Leone, August 08 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Salimatu Kanu trained for four years at the shrine in her Sierra Leonean village to become a "sowei" - women who initiate girls into ...