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A study in five west African countries found that children fostered by wealthier households were less likely to attend school than children fostered by poorer households.
The world faces compounding crises in food availability. Efforts in Sierra Leone to address these challenges could serve as a foundation for wider food security initiatives.
Gaz the farmer clears his throat, and we begin again to talk about Gaz the gangster.
Despite being crucial to Sierra Leone’s agricultural sector, women lack access to land. The bora custom is making things worse.
It is too simplistic to say that the use of AI in elections is all good or all bad. The truth is that it can be both.
Reducing risk requires moving beyond heavy-handed solutions like banning bushmeat, and instead focusing on making markets safer.
For villagers in remote areas in Sierra Leone it takes a lot of time and money to get to a clinic. So the COVID-19 vaccine came to the people.
Children benefit enormously from regular, cognitively stimulating interactions with their caregivers.
A major concern is whether the recent attacks In Sierra Leone will encourage further division and tension in the country.
The push for national trials reflects a disappointment with the slow pace and high costs of international justice.
The coup in Niger has the potential to further destabilise the whole of west Africa.
Temperature records are being broken in Africa and around the world.
The new ECOWAS chairman must focus on strengthening democracy and security in west Africa.
Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
Sierra Leone needs to rebuild public trust in its election by maintaining a completely transparent process.
Transitional justice contributed greatly to the peace which Sierra Leone has experienced in the last two decades.
Economic management, food shortages, health services, infrastructure and education are key issues that may shape how Sierra Leoneans vote on 24 June.
Africans should get more credit for the abolition of the slave trade.
The introduction of free education should follow a gradual process, starting with the lowest levels.
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