FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - In a desperate bid to slow West Africa's accelerating Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone ordered its 6 million people confined to their homes for three days starting Friday while ...

Sierra Leone placed hundreds of homes in the capital under Ebola quarantine Friday, in a huge blow for its recovery less than a month after it lifted all restrictions on movement. The government said ...

Sierra Leone refugees en route home. FREETOWN, Nov. 27 (UNHCR) - For the first time since the civil war began more than a decade ago, the U.N. refugee agency will shortly begin to help thousands of ...

Kids jump on tires over a sewage in a slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner By Kieran Guilbert FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When floods struck several slums ...

Richard Memba feeds his child by the roadside after the family was kicked out of their Mau Forest home at the weekend. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] People residing in the Sierra Leone settlement in the ...

FREETOWN, Aug 14 (Reuters) - More than 200 people were killed when a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes. The Red Cross said at least 205 ...

It seems to just keep getting worse. The Ebola outbreak that's been plaguing multiple West African states for the past several months has been a harrowing crash-course in the dangers of poor disease ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Mudslides and torrential flooding killed at least 250 people in and around Sierra Leone's capital early Monday following heavy rains, with many victims trapped in homes buried ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Richard Memba feeds his child by the roadside after the family was kicked out of their Mau ...

FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When floods struck several slums across Sierra Leone's capital last year, 55-year-old Amienata Bangura was forced to flee as her small shop, stock and years of ...

FREETOWN - A mudslide killed more than 200 people on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes and leaving residents desperate for news of missing family members.