Sierra Leone could become the second country in West Africa to decriminalize abortion, which health workers say would ...

Watching BBC News few days ago and reading both its website as well as those of the UK’s Fleet Street newspapers, journalists were moaning the ...

Advocates say the reform could significantly reduce maternal deaths linked to unsafe abortions, which account for an ...

Sierra Leone's culture is rich and diverse. The country has unique styles of dance and song, often accompanied by the kelei ...

Women’s reproductive rights are up to be widely expanded in Sierra Leone as lawmakers debate the Safe Motherhood Bill, which ...

When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she took friends’ advice and bought ...

John Dramani Mahama, the president of Ghana, was welcomed by President Julius Maada Bio at the Lungi International Airport, ...

Water is life; when there is no water, it is as if there are no people living.” These profound words from ‘Masechefo Sechefo, a Community ...

It is a welcome but uncommon thing when the female and male three-year-old champions return to race at four. Thorpedo Anna, ...

Benin, Cape Verde, Gabon, and Mozambique top their World Cup qualifying groups as underdogs in the African preliminaries.

Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she took friends' advice and bought misoprostol, a drug whose uses include abortion, from a local pharmacy. It didn't work.