Women giving birth in public hospitals in Sierra Leone who are unable to pay informal fees face dangerous neglect and abuse by health care providers, in some cases leading to the deaths of women or ...

Obstetric Violence in Sierra Leone,” documents cases of verbal abuse, medical neglect, and abandonment of women and girls ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she took ...

Fatima Bio, the first lady of Sierra Leon (center), poses with Sierra Leoneans of Utah at Utah World Trade Center Women's Breakfast. She spoke about rape and childhood marriage in Sierra Leon.

Minister of Social Welfare in Sierra Leone, HE Melrose Karminty, has heaped praise on the significant strides the State of Qatar has ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone 's capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of decomposing waste. Zainab sits there, squinting through the soot. It is her usual ...

A growing initiative is helping incarcerated women in Africa become certified soccer coaches An official soccer coaching program for incarcerated women is making waves across African correctional ...

Many of the migrant workers sheltering in the Beirut warehouse are unable to leave as they 'don't have their passports', a volunteer says — Joseph EID Not far from Beirut's heavily bombed southern ...

Veralyn Williams knows that path to citizenship Mara was reporting on intimately. Williams grew up in New York City. Her family moved there from Sierra Leone when she as an infant and she always ...