Our radio show, Wae Gyal Pikin Tinap (When a Girl Child Stands), empowered girls to take charge of their futures ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases surged by 71%. Roughly half of all confirmed mpox cases in Africa now come ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility ...

By 2050, the African continent will be home to nearly 40 percent of the worldʼs youth. With this demographic shift comes ...

A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared kush a public health emergency, but poverty and trauma are slowing efforts ...

The small Western African state earlier this month concluded a round of seismic research that it now hopes would lure ...

Magee was integral in the Loons signing South African forward/wingback Bongi Hlongwane in 2022 and he believes Africa can be ...

I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too ...

Sierra Leone’s postwar Truth and Reconciliation Commission had called for reforms to increase women’s representation in politics and reduce women’s marginalization in education and health ...

MAKENI, Sierra Leone — Any exasperated parent might be forgiven for wanting a daughter like Alimatu Sesay, a highly motivated 16-year-old who can’t afford schoolbooks but borrows them from ...