The under-the-radar capital of Sierra Leone has lively beaches ... follow Kai Kai’s guide to the city. “From the veranda of Cole Street Guesthouse, in the suburb of Murray Town, you can ...

Rice borders on the sacred in Sierra Leone, which has one of the world's highest consumption rates. But as prices soar, ...

Sierra Leone imported $78 million of iron and steel products in 2023. The country, home to one of Africa's largest iron mines and a significant exporter of metallurgical goods, seeks to enhance its ...

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr has made a name for herself as a tree-planting mayor of a West African city on the brink ... voted for by the residents of Sierra Leone's capital city two decades ago.

In December l998, following the capture of the diamond rich Kono district and subsequently Makeni, Sierra Leone's fifth largest city, thousands of RUF fighters started moving towards the capital.