United Nations troops took another cautious step in war-torn Sierra Leone on Tuesday, sending peacekeeping contingents to three towns in the heart of rebel-controlled territory, U.N. officials said. A ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A deadly mudslide. A horrible Ebola virus that killed thousands. And a nation still in recovery from a civil war that killed more than 50,000 people. As Sierra Leoneans go to ...

The law unequivocally sets the minimum age for marriage at 18, imposing stringent penalties on those who contravene it. The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act was signed into law by President Julius ...

For the past year, marine pilot Ian Lawrence and his family of four have been volunteering on a hospital ship off the coast of Sierra Leone. He was granted a year's unpaid leave from Associated ...

Guinea said Tuesday that it had been told by Africa's top football body to move an important qualifier against Togo next month to another country because of the Ebola outbreak. Guinea's neighbor ...