Sierra Leone on Monday told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that Jenner & Block's lawsuit seeking $8 million in legal fees was the "picture of murkiness" and should be thrown out.

Sierra Leone’s President Maada Bio has taken an early lead in the country’s presidential election, provisional results showed. The Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) said it had so ...

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio speaking at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, U.K. on November 2, 2021. On Wednesday, a brawl broke out in the parliament of Sierra Leone ...

At wharfs across the Freetown peninsula in Sierra Leone, local fishers say in recent years it’s become harder to get a good catch. They blame foreign trawlers for overexploiting the country’s ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — One of the misimpressions people have about the world is that it’s going to hell. Perhaps that’s because humanity’s great triumph over the last half-century ...

MAKENI, Sierra Leone — Any exasperated parent might be forgiven for wanting a daughter like Alimatu Sesay, a highly motivated 16-year-old who can’t afford schoolbooks but borrows them from ...

Sierra Leone must face a lawsuit by U.S. law firm Jenner & Block seeking to recover more than $8 million in fees from the West African country for several years of legal work, a federal judge has ...