Saidu Bah

Dozens of foreign trawlers are licensed to fish in Sierra Leonean waters and the aim of the ban was to help replenish species damaged by overfishing

Many attacks go unpunished, and those that are reported often fail to end in indictments or make it through the judicial system, rights groups say

“There are complaints from the opposition that the ruling party’s partisans are stuffing ballots”

There are sixteen candidates vying for Ernest Bai Koroma’s post after he steps down after two terms

Sierra Leone’s president issued a desperate appeal for help, a day after flooding ravaged the country’s capital, killing more than 300 people.