MAKENI, Sierra Leone — Brace yourself for a gross fact: Some 1.5 billion of the world’s people have worms living in their bodies, weakening them and occasionally disfiguring them. Yet ...

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 maternal health crisis ...

The Mudslides In Sierra Leone Last August Took Over 1,000 Lives. ... It was a decision that saved his life. ... hundreds of thousands of rural Sierra Leoneans migrated to the capital.

For women of Sierra Leone, additional healthcare concerns center around access to care and lack of healthcare information. Many women residing in isolated and/or rural areas are unaware of the ...

Life expectancy in Sierra Leone is 46 years old. ... Yet he turned those positions down in favor of the shoddy public sector in a more rural region of the country.

Since November 2021, a new restaurant, The Cole Street Guest House, has put Sierra Leone's ancestral flavours front and centre, creating a buzzing oasis where history and culture meet haute cuisine.

Sierra Leone has lost an estimated 35% of its forest cover since 2000. With only 5,500 wild Western chimpanzees remaining, the chimpanzee population’s fate reflects the health of the forest ...

The death toll was over 1,000. The survivors often feel the government has not helped them move forward. And they wonder if enough is being done to prevent new disasters.

Sierra Leone has lost an estimated 35% of its forest cover since 2000. With only 5,500 wild Western chimpanzees remaining, the chimpanzee population’s fate reflects the health of the forest ...