Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Sierra Leone-born Ishmael Beah came to the United States in 1998, he said, he met ignorance.

In 2017, five men digging in an open pit found the third largest diamond ever unearthed in West Africa. It was dubbed the ...

Ask most people in the UK what they associate with the small west African nation of Sierra Leone, and it’s likely it will be one of three things: blood diamonds, Ebola, or the country’s civil war, ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Security Council on Wednesday lifted all remaining U.N. sanctions against Sierra Leone, eight years after it emerged from an 11-year civil war that was at the center of ...