FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - In a desperate bid to slow West Africa's accelerating Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone ordered its 6 million people confined to their homes for three days starting Friday while ...

FREETOWN, (Reuters) – A mudslide killed more than 200 people on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes and leaving residents desperate for news of missing ...

Kids jump on tires over a sewage in a slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner By Kieran Guilbert FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When floods struck several slums ...

Sierra Leone refugees en route home. FREETOWN, Nov. 27 (UNHCR) - For the first time since the civil war began more than a decade ago, the U.N. refugee agency will shortly begin to help thousands of ...

Sierra Leone placed hundreds of homes in the capital under Ebola quarantine Friday, in a huge blow for its recovery less than a month after it lifted all restrictions on movement. The government said ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Scattered across Sierra Leone's capital Freetown stand ageing wooden houses, some of which look more like they belong on the east coast of 18th century America than in a steamy ...

Richard Memba feeds his child by the roadside after the family was kicked out of their Mau Forest home at the weekend. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] People residing in the Sierra Leone settlement in the ...

It seems to just keep getting worse. The Ebola outbreak that's been plaguing multiple West African states for the past several months has been a harrowing crash-course in the dangers of poor disease ...

FREETOWN, Aug 14 (Reuters) - More than 200 people were killed when a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes. The Red Cross said at least 205 ...