A nationwide curfew has been declared in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the country's main and largest military barracks in Freetown, the capital city, raising fears of a breakdown of order amid a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, with New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker: Two-year terms for mayor ...

Few cities face the kind of challenges that Freetown faces. A city of 1 million and capital of the West African nation of Sierra Leone, Freetown endured a bloody civil war in the 1990s and continued ...

Milo Gough has received funding from the AHRC through CHASE DTP. Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it ...

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr walks up the stairs from her office in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to her car when she notices that the sky has darkened and is starting to open up. Tiny drops of rain fall. Within ...

Fresh gunfire was heard in a suburb of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, on Tuesday as security forces combed through the city in search of suspects linked to a jailbreak and a foiled attack on a ...

The mayors of Boston, Paris, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Quezon City, Philippines, made the cut for Forbes’ first Sustainability Leaders list. We spoke with two of them about their cities’ climate ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At least five people are dead after flash flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital on Friday amid torrential rains, mortuary sources said. More rain was expected as some ...

The broadband network in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, is set to become “the first fully green network in the sub region” after CrossBoundary Energy agreed to finance a 1.2 MW solar system backed ...