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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Julianknxx: ‘There’s a release and relief when people sing together’

      The Sierra Leonean filmmaker’s new installation at London’s Barbican features videos with choirs performing his poems

      In a still from a video, in front of an old church, a person wearing a long beaded headdress puts their hands together as if in prayer
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      InterviewSierra Leone
      Africa exerting ‘pressure’ on Putin over Ukraine, says Sierra Leone president

      Julius Maada Bio calls for both sides to work to end the war that has sent food prices soaring across much of his continent

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Climate change
      Freetown mayor battles flooding threat to urban slums

      Capital of Sierra Leone attempts to reverse deforestation to reduce risk of heavy rains

      Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
      World
      Sierra Leone mudslide leaves hundreds dead and more missing

      Logging on hills contributed to disaster in crowded port city, says UN adviser

      Search and rescue team members and soldiers operate near a mudslide site and damaged building near Freetown on August 14, 2017, after landslides struck the capital of the west African state of Sierra Leone. At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown, leaving morgues overflowing and residents desperately searching for loved ones. An AFP journalist at the scene saw bodies being carried away and houses submerged in two areas of the city, where roads turned into churning rivers of mud and corpses were washed up on the streets. / AFP PHOTO / SAIDU BAHSAIDU BAH/AFP/Getty Images
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
      World
      Hundreds killed in Sierra Leone mudslide

      Death toll rises above 300 after hill collapses on outskirts of capital Freetown

      This picture shows flooded streets in Regent near Freetown, on August 14, 2017. The death toll from massive flooding in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown climbed to 312 on August 14, 2017, the local Red Cross told AFP. Red Cross spokesman Patrick Massaquoi told AFP the toll could rise further as his team continued to survey disaster areas in Freetown, where heavy rains have caused homes to disappear under water and triggered a mudslide. / AFP PHOTO / Society 4 climate change communication Sierra Leone / STR / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / "S4CCC-SL" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS STR/AFP/Getty Images
    • Friday, 11 March, 2016
      Ebola
      Sierra Leone’s wealthy re-emerge in a country hit hard by Ebola

      In a city that likes to party, Freetown’s wealthy are hitting the night spots again

    • Monday, 7 March, 2016
      ReviewGreat Place to Meet
      Florence’s Resort, Freetown

      Settle into Sierra Leone’s laid-back lifestyle with lobster on Sussex beach

      Florence Resort Sierra Leone
    • Thursday, 25 June, 2015
      beyondbricsEbola
      Three lessons governments must learn from the Ebola crisis
    • Wednesday, 17 December, 2014
      Life & Arts
      Signs of hope in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

      Group of 10 NGOs led by IRC at the heart of effort to bring epidemic under control

      Anyone about to enter the ‘green zone’ of the IRC run Ebola Isolation Unit at Bo hospital, Sierra Leone must have their shoes sprayed with chlorine to prevent the spread of Ebola
    • Monday, 20 October, 2014
      World
      Chinese doctors battle Ebola on Africa’s frontline

      Health workers in Sierra Leone’s Friendship Hospital treats up to eight new patients every day

    • Thursday, 16 October, 2014
      Energy sector
      Ebola in Sierra Leone: how one company is trying to cope

      Mining chief executive John Sisay faces challenges to keep his staff virus free in Sierra Leone

      John Sisay
    • Wednesday, 8 October, 2014
      FT Photo DiaryWorld
      Ebola epidemic
    • Friday, 16 November, 2012
      African companies
      Sierra Leone heads to the polls
    • Sunday, 26 August, 2012
      World
      Cholera outbreak kills 224 in Sierra Leone
    • Tuesday, 12 June, 2012
      beyondbricsMarkets
      Broadband in W Africa: the challenges
    • Thursday, 26 April, 2012
      World
      War victims welcome Taylor verdict

      Ruling against former president was a long time coming

    • Wednesday, 25 April, 2012
      World
      Taylor verdict offers closure for Sierra Leone
    • Friday, 13 April, 2012
      FT Magazine
      Twelve days in west Africa: Accra to Freetown

      Sierra Leone is gradually raising itself back on its feet, writes Lionel Barber on the final leg of his personal journey through west Africa

    • Friday, 13 April, 2012
      Global Economy
      Sierra Leone’s war trauma gives way to resource bonanza

      IMF forecasts world-leading 34 per cent growth

    • Friday, 27 January, 2012
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      FT Sightsavers MBA Challenge - Case Studies
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      ReviewLife & Arts
      Chasing the Devil
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      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Book of Negroes
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      Arts
      Rough Crossings, Lyric Theatre, London
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      Visual and data journalism
      Lebanese in Sierra Leone
    • Monday, 17 September, 2007
      Global Economy
      Struggling for a future in Sierra Leone
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