Regions / Africa / Sierra Leone
Articles about Sierra Leone, ordered by date. 
On borrowed rice
Price hikes are leaving many in Sierra Leone unable to even afford food. Alessio Perrone reports.
First Ebola, then Covid-19
Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.
Grief and guilt post-mudslide
In August hundreds died in a landslide in Sierra Leone. Dumbuya Mustapha reports on the arguing over who was responsible that has followed – and the efforts to hold the government responsible to ensure the tragedy is not repeated.
Why did the market fail to produce an Ebola vaccine?
Mustapha Dumbaya lost 47 relatives in the outbreak. He explores why dysfunctional R&D is letting down those people who need it most.
'Everything is on my shoulders'
Serah Tomba went from being a student to sole carer of seven orphans.
'I speak for the girls'
Elizabeth Katta talks about the lingering impacts of teenage pregnancy, which spiked during Ebola.
'These are the boys who fought Ebola!'
Gangsters turned mobilizers, the Tripoli Boys kicked Ebola out of their neighbourhood. Amjata Bayoh and Mohamed S Camara find out what happened next.
Love without touch
Bankolay Turay’s story of student romance on ice.
For better or worse
Mamie Lebbi, the first woman to test positive for Ebola, describes how she survived in the bush with her husband’s help.
Where my father lies
Mariama B Jalloh’s quest to find her father’s grave.
Ebola - the facts
Statistics and more on the spread of the virus through West Africa.
Did we learn the right lessons from Ebola?
And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.
What is the right response to the Ebola crisis?
MSF respond to charges against the way they operate in Sierra Leone.
In our own words
Citizen journalists Sheku Feika and Anoop Kumar tell the remarkable tales of three disabled young people from Sierra Leone and India.
The not so Special Court for Sierra Leone
The trial of Charles Taylor has left an unhappy judicial legacy, argues Sulakshana Gupta.
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