Sierra Leone

Ireland contributed over €150million to help mitigate the effects of the pandemic in developing countries, as part of a global response to Covid-19 in(...)

When Mariatu ran out of money to keep studying, she made a decision that would change her life. Like many other young women from Sierra Leone, she had(...)

Four days after a fuel tanker explosion killed more than 100 people, posters with photographs of the dead and missing marked the site of the tragedy (...)

As a mass burial of Freetown’s fuel tanker explosion victims was organised for Monday afternoon, there was a rush to claim the dead. A crowd gathered(...)

In hospitals in Freetown, Sierra Leone, medics worried they are fast running out of medical supplies, as crowds of anxious family members waited at th(...)

An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, killing at least 98 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to c(...)

Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop John McDowell has described the controversial service at Armagh’s Church of Ireland St Patrick’s Cathedral on Oct(...)

Aminata Seilloh Conteh was in her third year of university when her father died in a car crash. The young student from Sierra Leone immediately fell i(...)

Angelina Jolie sits at a desk, back straight as a rule and rather regal. Her features are cartoonishly beautiful – straight black hair, vertiginous ch(...)

In Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries on earth, a patient’s chance of surviving Covid-19 can come down to money. One-third of Covid-19 admiss(...)