Jeremiah Thoronka, a 21-year-old Sierra Leonean student and winner of the Chegg.org Global Student Prize, had the honour of meeting His Holiness Pope Francis in Rome last week

85.000 people are currently struggling with epilepsy throughout the country, revealed Max Bangura, executive director of the Sierra Leone Epilepsy Association

National emergency has been declared for growing abuse of kush, a psychoactive mixture of addictive substances made also from human bones affecting 63% of patients of Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital; security has also been tightened at cemeteries

Deaths of victims who have taken the substance known as kush are spreading across the country; often the bodies go unidentified and unclaimed

President Julius Maada Bio hailed China's continued support for infrastructure development during his state visit to China, his second since assuming the presidency