MAKENI, Sierra Leone — “Where’s the corpse?” the burial-team worker shouted, kicking open the door of the isolation ward at the government hospital here. The body was right in front of him, a solidly ...

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Within the space of six months, 18-year-old centre-back Juma Bah has gone from playing football in his homeland of Sierra Leone to paying his own €6million release clause in order to unilaterally ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. >> The Freetown (Sierra Leone)-New Haven (Connecticut) Sister Cities Program has won the Sister Cities International’s 2015 Innovation Award for humanitarian assistance for a city ...

Tens of thousands of people in Freetown, Sierra Leone, live in informal settlements dense with metal and concrete buildings that trap heat and make heatwaves more dangerous. An experiment has shown ...

A nationwide curfew has been declared in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the country's main and largest military barracks in Freetown, the capital city, raising fears of a breakdown of order amid a ...

Idris Elba wants to build an eco-friendly smart city in Sierra Leone. “The Wire” star is working with Siaka Stevens, his childhood friend, to develop a smart city on Sherbro Island after the region ...

Idris Elba has visions of the future and is hard at work building a new "smart eco-city" on an island in Sierra Leone. Idris Elba has visions for the future and is hard at work on a new “smart ...

Idris Elba is taking yet another project, but it’s not on the big screen. The beloved British-born actor is reportedly laying plans to work with Sierra Leone’s government to develop a smart city along ...

Excitement was in the air Friday evening as nearly 60 people crowded into the Tri-Cities Airport awaiting a special arrival. They had spent more than a day tracking the course of their loved ones as ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, with New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker: Two-year terms for mayor ...