U.S. and Sierra Leone government officials have agreed to re-establish a Peace Corps program in Sierra Leone after a 15-year absence, the Peace Corps said...

Flash floods have claimed 187 lives and affected 635,273 people in west Africa since the rainy season started in June, the UN Office for the Coordination of...

Sierra Leone — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, were missing and feared dead Thursday, a day after a boat capsized at...

On a gray and rainy Saturday, five young men are gathered at the Body Guard music studio in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. The modest one-story building has...

The Kimberley Process certification scheme, which aims to stop the use of diamonds to fund conflict, is failing, according to a campaign group.

By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa’s farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent’s precarious food...

A boys’ soccer team from Sierra Leone won silver at a tournament in Sweden, but were hailed as champions in their poor West African homeland — because they...

Zain Group has rebranded its entire Africa operations from Celtel to Zain. The move brings the mobile operator’s Middle East and African mobile operations under...

When Fatmata’s parents asked her to name the father of her unborn child, she couldn’t answer them. Captured by Revolutionary United Front rebels at 11, she had...

I left Africa in 1985, nearly 23 years ago and I haven’t been back. But like some things in life, once you become involved, you can never quite put it out of your...