Drawing lessons from Sierra Leone and having watched the mid-2026 outbreak in the DRC, I conclude that it risks become a global epidemic.
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Studying the mineral olivine in kimberlite sheds some light on diamond origins.
A new continent-wide map is helping identify where Africa’s groundwater can support drinking water and irrigation. Monitoring boreholes tracks aquifer health.
Assessments are often treated as culturally neutral when they are not.
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has the potential to become huge and of long duration.
Early identification of abnormal heart rate and blood pressure is crucial to prevent maternal deaths from postpartum haemorrhage and maternal sepsis.
10 years after official end of the Ebola pandemic, very few people know that survivors have struggled to continue with their lives.
Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
Families, chiefs or document brokers remain crucial to help people get a legal identity.
The new laws often shield the wealthy and punish the powerless, especially adolescent couples in relationships.
Wild fish sustain life in Sierra Leone’s fishing towns, but declining stocks mean fish farming is needed. However, fishing communities distrust farmed fish.
The Trump administration’s move to withdraw the US from these organizations risks undercutting lasting peace and global human rights accountability.
There’s a significant shift towards the recognition of customary rights and the strengthening of women’s land rights.
Kush, a synthetic drug ravaging Sierra Leone, highlights a crisis of sedation and structural neglect in marginalised communities all over the world.
Sierra Leoneans are worried by the increasing number of mpox cases and deaths that have been recorded in 2025.
Planting trees might make Freetown in Sierra Leone more resilient to climate change but it won’t end global warming. Only ditching fossil fuels can do that.
A study finds female genital mutilation or cutting is a leading cause of death: a young woman or girl dies every 12 minutes.
Women in the Grafton community of Sierra Leone are often left with restricted land ownership rights.
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the construction of Freetown’s Hill Station enclave a century ago.
Listen to The Conversation Weekly for an interview with gang expert Dennis Rodgers, and Gaz, a former gang leader from Sierra Leone.
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