A new family of banknotes has been introduced, removing three zeros from the lion, in an attempt to restore confidence in the inflation-hit national currency

Excessive use of force by Sierra Leonean security was found to have been used to suppress protests that turned violent in Freetown, Makeni and Kamakwie in August 2022 with more than 20 people killed

Presidential candidate 2023 of the main opposition All People's Congress party - Samura Kamara - has nominated MP Chernor Ramadan Maju-Bah as his running mate for the upcoming elections, to be held on 24 June 2023

'There is no more space to build houses' is the alarm raised by coastal Freetown residents, forced to build houses on land "reclaimed" from the sea in a process known as banking

Africell, a Sierra Leone-based mobile phone company, has donated beach cleaning equipment worth thousands of dollars to two top clean-up organisations at its Lumley Beach Road branch