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 AFP - 7/8/17 Women from Sierra Leone can now pass on their nationality to their children, following the passage of what women's rights groups said Friday was a landmark change in... |
 AFP - 5/12/17 Sierra Leone's government said Thursday it would seek higher offers in Belgium for a massive 709-carat diamond found by an Evangelical preacher after underwhelming... |
 AFP - 4/6/17 Sierra Leone said Wednesday that it was extending the bidding for a massive 709-carat diamond found by an Evangelical preacher last month, after the government... |
 AFP - 3/24/17 Evangelical preacher Emmanuel Momoh prayed for five years that he would discover the diamond he needed to pull his family out of poverty in eastern Sierra Leone.... |
 AFP - 3/17/17 A pastor working in the mines of eastern Sierra Leone has unearthed a 706-carat diamond, a discovery that experts said Thursday could be the 10th largest stone ever... |
 AFP - 3/7/17 Since he accused Sierra Leone's parliament of diverting public funds from some of the world's poorest people, including Ebola crisis victims, Abdul Fatoma's life has... |
 AFP - 8/9/16 Sierra Leone and Liberia risk new deadly epidemics akin to the impact of the Ebola virus due to lack of clean water and hygienic conditions in most homes, an NGO... |
 AFP - 7/17/16 Sierra Leone declared Friday that it would stop the mandatory testing of all dead bodies for the Ebola virus, lifting a restriction put in place at the end of an... |
 AFP - 7/6/16 A Sierra Leonean diplomat who was kidnapped in northern Nigeria has been freed, officials of both countries said Tuesday. Alfred Nelson-Williams, Freetown's... |
 AFP - 7/5/16 Sierra Leone has some of the finest beaches in the world, but many around the capital are now clogged with foul-smelling seaweed that threatens the tourism and... |
 AFP - 7/4/16 Nigerian security officials are questioning the driver of Sierra Leone's kidnapped deputy high commissioner, an official in Freetown said Saturday. The envoy,... |
 AFP - 6/26/16 Saudi Arabia's government has allocated 800 places to Sierra Leone for hajj pilgrims, lifting a two-year ban imposed due to the Ebola crisis, officials said Friday.... |
 Xinhuanet - 6/10/16 KIGALI, June 10 (Xinhua) -- A Sierra Leone war crimes convict died in Rwandan prison before completing his 50-year jail term, prison authorities confirmed on Thursday... |
 Xinhuanet - 6/9/16 The Economic Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone Shen Xiaokai has assured the people of Sierra Leone about China's commitment in the Mamamah airport... |
 The Associated Press - 6/6/16 West African leaders discussed setting up a force to combat extremists in the region and will send an observation mission to Gambia before elections, the regional... |
 AFP - 5/14/16 Sierra Leone's capital is in the grip of a fortnight-long drought that has forced residents to spend hours searching for water, often risking their lives by drinking... |
 AFP - 5/13/16 It is final exams season at Masuba midwifery school in rural Sierra Leone, and 70 more students are about to begin working life at the sharp end of the country's... |
 AFP - 5/12/16 Violently coughing up blood, the woman was close to collapse when brought to Kailahun hospital in eastern Sierra Leone from her village close to the Guinean border.... |
 AFP - 5/11/16 Dizzy and sweating, 15-year-old Isatu Koroma sits with her eyes closed in the maternity ward in Sierra Leone where she has spent the last 10 days, as her tiny little... |
 AFP - 4/11/16 Sierra Leone called Sunday for increased vigilance to prevent a resurgence of the Ebola virus after new cases in neighbouring Liberia and Guinea, but cautioned... |
 AFP - 4/5/16 Ebola survivors jostled with police in Sierra Leone's capital on Monday as they protested perceived government inaction over their care in a health system badly hit... |
 AFP - 3/27/16 Police and military arms experts in Sierra Leone began destroying nearly 5,000 "unserviceable weapons" on Saturday in an operation set to last two weeks. ... |
 AFP - 3/17/16 The latest flare-up of Ebola in Sierra Leone has ended with no confirmed cases of the virus now in West Africa, the UN said Thursday, as the country celebrated a "... |
 AFP - 3/17/16 A convicted Sierra Leonean war criminal was denied bail Wednesday after allegedly breaching the terms of his early release, laying the path for a potential trial that... |