Sawyerr, and its first chief heat officer, Eugenia Kargbo, have teamed up to protect citizens from extreme heat and replenish Sierra Leone’s tropical rainforests.

The 2014 Ebola outbreak – the deadliest in history – was primarily in West Africa but affected Sierra Leone the most, with nearly 4,000 deaths out of the more than 11,000 recorded globally.

the Ebola epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war ...

In 2014, Sierra Leone was one of the countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebola virus outbreak. Today, Sierra Leone remains one of the world’s poorest countries, where nearly half of the working-age ...

In 2014 health worker Donnell Tholley was so struck by the plight of one his patients in an Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone that he agreed to adopt her baby boy after she died. The child was close to ...

Arranged marriages are common in Sierra Leone. Baby Seibureh, 17, and Claude Seibureh, 48, of Freetown, were married during the Ebola crisis. Baby needed a cesarean section to safely give birth to ...

Already under strain before the epidemic hit, the health and social systems of the governments of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—the countries most affected by the epidemic—were overwhelmed. The ...

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the Ebola epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war ...