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Sierra Leone

There's a great deal of concern among civil society groups over how ethnic tensions may influence Sierra Leone’s June 24 elections.
Elections
Sierra Leone elections: Familiar faces vie for voter trust as economy stagnates
busy market
West African countries adopt new strategies to encourage COVID-19 vaccination  
A family visits across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Arch Historical State Park as a cyclist rides past on the Canadian side, in Blaine, Wash.
Top of The World
US to reopen land borders next month to fully vaccinated people
A girl washes her hands at a spigot at the entrance of her parents' house in Pikine, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, on March 9, 2020.
COVID-19
What the US can learn from West Africa to slow the spread of coronavirus
archive
Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost
Man in orang jumpsuit dancing in front of two people in army fatigues
Future Folk
This is a remix? Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ has started a global wave of remix videos
Mudslide
Economics
Sierra Leone mudslide survivors have nowhere else to go but back home to the devastation
A woman wearing a headwrap and as shimmering blue and gold dress stands in front of a camera, with her hands to her hips.
Culture
Fashion, faith and culture come together through the global art of head wrapping
A woman mourns for her son at the entrance of Connaught Hospital
Development
At least 100 children are among the dead in Sierra Leone flooding
People inspect the damage after a mudslide in the mountain town of Regent, Sierra Leone.
Conflict
Sierra Leone reaches out to international community after hundreds die in mudslides
Sorie Kondi and DJ Chief Boima of Kondi Band
Music
Kondi Band connects West African thumb piano with US electronica
Woman sitting at desk while on phone, with computer screen behind
Justice
Black and Muslim, some African immigrants feel the brunt of Trump’s immigration plans
Vickie Remoe
Business
It’s not just Kesha. Women face demands for transactional sex all over the world.
Ebola Survivor Gorma Dolo, holds an ebola free health certificate at her house in Freeman Reserve, Liberia.
Health
Ebola survivors face lingering health problems
Music
Bye Bye Ebola! Eradication spurs rap song in Sierra Leone.
Healthcare workers were some of the hardest hit during Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic. The names of 200 of those who died will be read at a vigil in Freetown. (Photo of hospital staff in Freetown at the height of the outbreak).
Health
Counting down to an Ebola-free future in Sierra Leone
Umaru Fofana is one of Africa's most respected journalists. But he says that covering Ebola tested him in ways he never expected
Health
Umaru Fofana says he ‘had to let the world know’ about Ebola
One of many banners around Freetown, Sierra Leone, warning people not to touch one another because of Ebola.
Health
Emerging from the spectre of Ebola
An ambulance transporting an Ebola patient drives to the entrance of a treatment centre outside Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Health
An American aid worker with Ebola receives speedy care, while a Sierra Leonean colleague is ‘left behind’
A baby looks out of a box at an outdoor market in Devils Hole, Sierra Leone. A new report suggests Ebola has created 12,000 orphans in the West African country.
Health
Armies of student volunteers are key to Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola
Student at Gibson High School in Monrovia, Deborah Natt,16, is smiling to be back at school. At every entrance there is a handwashing station.
Health
As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia’s schools begin re-opening
Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic continues to claim lives
Health
Ebola is leaving a new generation of orphans
Michel du Cille's haunting photographs from the Ebola front included this one of Esther Tokpah, 11, orphaned in Monrovia, Liberia
Media
Remembering how photojournalist Michel du Cille framed the world
US President Barack Obama meets Britain's Prince William
Global Scan
Prince William’s US trip seems more political than regal
Ebola map
Development
This nonprofit group is trying to make the world more equal — through mapping
Edward Turay, Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Britain, attends the "Defeating Ebola: Sierra Leone" conference in central London on October 2, 2014.
Health
Ebola cases are soaring in Sierra Leone, and the government is coming up short
A satirical map created by Anthony England to show people around the world how little of Africa has been affected by the Ebola outbreak.
Health
Twitter snark helps put the geography of Ebola in stark relief
Sierra Leonean nurse Veronica Koroma (left) and doctor Donald Samuel Grant (right) stand by a patient in the Lassa fever ward at Kenema Government Hospital in February, 2011
Health
West Africans have another virus to worry about — Lassa fever
Reuben Koroma, a founding member of the band Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, at his temporary home in Providence, Rhode Island.
Music
A band of Sierra Leonean war refugees is trapped outside their country — again
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
Soldiers from the U.S. Army put on one of three pairs of protective gloves during their final session of personal protective equipment training.
Health
How ‘big data’ could help stop the spread of Ebola
Health workers remove the body a woman who died from the Ebola virus in the Aberdeen district of Freetown, Sierra Leone, on October 14, 2014.
Health
One story describes the oppressive Ebola ‘siege’ in Sierra Leone
Ebola test
Global Politics
With no time to find a cure, Ebola could be contained faster with a quicker test
A fan of the Ivory Coast holds a sign with a message against Ebola during a 2015 African Nations Cup qualifier between Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital.
Sports
Ebola makes Sierra Leone’s soccer team ‘the ultimate outcast’
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.
Environment
Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola
Health workers attend a protest on October 7, 2014, outside Madrid's La Paz Hospital calling for Spain's health minister, Ana Mato, to resign after a Spanish nurse contracted Ebola.
Health
At the hospital where a Spanish nurse got Ebola, workers say their training was poor
Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, an MSF Mental Health Manager from Norway, poses with six-year-old Ebola survivor Patrick.
Health
Ebola forges a bond between a young boy and the psychologist who helped him
Pupils of Olumawu School in Nigeria are guided through the use of hand sanitizers. Nigeria is so far managing to halt the spread of Ebola.
Science
A scientist on the cutting edge of Ebola research calls for calm and focus
An empty street at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on September 19, 2014. Curfews were imposed in an effort to halt the spread of the Ebola virus.
Health
Sierra Leone celebrates the end of its lockdown, but Ebola still looms
Health workers wearing protective clothing disinfect themselves after an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms was found at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 17, 2014.
Health
This American doctor says racism is to blame for the slow response to the Ebola outbreak
Coral trout
Global Scan
Could this trout really be as smart as a chimp?
A health worker, wearing head-to-toe protective gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola at a treatment center for infected persons at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Health
Why isn’t the rest of the world helping fight the Ebola outbreak?
Members of a Red Cross burial team put on personal protective equipment before entering the home of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in the village of Dia on Monday, August 18, 2014.
Health
A photographer gets up close with the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
Residents in an Ebola quarantine area in the West Point of Monrovia, Liberia, complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials on August 23, 2014.
Health
Ebola survivors return to lives of fear and ostracism
The monster mouth doorway at Lagunita
Global Scan
An ancient lost Mayan city reappears in Mexico
Liberian soldiers check people for Ebola
Health
How fear is hampering the response to the Ebola crisis
A UN convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message about Ebola on a street in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on August 14, 2014.
Health
Pop tunes become infomercials in the fight against Ebola in West Africa
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.
Health
Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.
Health
Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa
Fruit bats are seen for sale at a food market in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
Development
As the Ebola crisis rages, West African villagers are warned away from fruit bats
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki was left off the invitation list to the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC.
Global Politics
Eritrea’s president wasn’t invited to Washington, but does it matter?
A Chinese doctor checks the temperature of a passenger on a flight from Hong Kong to Shanghai during the SARS outbreak in 2003. There are now fears that Ebola could spread via travel from West Africa to the rest of the world.
Medicine
Put away the plastic sheets and duct tape — there’s no Ebola outbreak coming to the US
Health workers carry the body of an ebola virus victim in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Health
The death of a key doctor damages the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone
Medical staff take a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient at the government hospital in Kenema, July 10, 2014.
Health & Medicine
Tensions mount between healthcare workers and Ebola-infected communities in West Africa
Environment
Should we harm captive great apes in order to save wild ones?
Downtown Worcester, Massachusetts from Norfolk Street on November 4, 2012
Conflict & Justice
Nearly killed in Sierra Leone, this refugee has found more than a home in Worcester, Mass.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, an acronym for "Avtomat Kalashnikov model 1947", indicating its first year of production.
Arts, Culture & Media
Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47 take a bow
Environment
DJ Focus becomes youngest visiting practitioner at MIT
Women in Sierra Leone face high barriers to participation in politics
Arts, Culture & Media
Musician Janka Nabay brings Sierra Leonean sound to Brooklyn