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Facing myriad global pressures, Iran intensifies outreach to African partners for critical needs

Burkina Faso’s security minister headed to Tehran on Nov. 12, 2025, for high-level talks with Iranian officials. The visit was a fruitful one: The West African nation reopened its Iranian embassy, finalized new agreements on security cooperation and held discussions about strengthening relations in agriculture and industry.

The Conversation

How US evangelicals are using Trump’s aid cuts to attack human rights in Africa

INVESTIGATION: As Donald Trump's aid cuts leave African health programmes scrambling, The Independent pieces together events at a number of conferences where American religious organisations are looking to move in to shape the future. Rachel Schraer reports

The Independent UK

‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders

From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are crafting their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures

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‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID

The long read: When Donald Trump set about dismantling USAID, many around the world were shocked. But on the ground in Sierra Leone, the latest betrayal was not unexpected

The Guardian - UK

‘We are more than blood diamonds and Ebola’: Sierra Leone seeks investment in a post-aid world

INTERVIEW: The chief minister of Sierra Leone tells Nick Ferris why he believes the country is ripe for investment and how that will help nation over the next decade

The Independent UK

How Mpox revealed an epidemic of untreated HIV in Sierra Leone – as Trump’s aid cuts begin to bite

IN DEPTH: The impact of the US slashing foreign aid on the country’s Mpox response has likely been huge, activists on the ground tell Rachel Schraer

The Independent UK

Synthetic drugs are having devastating effects around the world, from Sierra Leone to the UK

In the blistering heat of Freetown, Sierra Leone, young men gather on street corners, their limbs swollen, eyes glazed. They are the victims of kush, a cheap and deadly synthetic drug sweeping the country.

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‘Well, no, you don’t have to have children’: what African women over the age of 60 have learned about life

Women across west Africa have a life expectancy of 59. In a rare project, Sylvia Arthur set out to give voice to those who have lived beyond expectation, whose experiences have been largely overlooked

The Guardian - UK

Chimp refuge shuts doors to tourists in deforestation protest

Workers said deforestation in the area was fuelled by ‘land grabbing’ for development

The Independent UK

‘The matter is in his hands alone’: president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to torture

The Ecowas court of justice has ordered the West African country to criminalise female genital mutilation after hearing the case of a woman brutally forced to undergo the practice

The Guardian - UK

The Activist Who Fought For Sierra Leone's First World Heritage Site

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency's World Heritage list.

International Business Times

‘Smoking to survive’: How Sierra Leone’s youth got hooked on kush

A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared kush a public health emergency, but poverty and trauma are slowing efforts by communities to help unhook young people from its sometimes deadly hold.

Radio France Internationale

Mpox in Sierra Leone: what’s behind the recent surge and why west Africa is at risk

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries and spark a larger outbreak throughout the densely populated region of west Africa. Cases in Sierra Leone appear to…

The Conversation

Sierra Leone's President Bio to be the next ECOWAS chairman with region in turmoil

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS

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How technology is helping African countries fight malaria from the skies

A new initiative is using AI-powered drones to identify and eliminate mosquito breeding grounds in Ghana and Sierra Leone, in a bid to prevent malaria outbreaks.

The Guardian - UK

From New York to Sierra Leone: the search for a missing sister

Oluwaseun Babalola’s film Fighting Giants is an exploration of the misogyny and racism encountered by her family as they attempted to uncover the truth behind her sibling’s disappearance seven years ago

Radio France Internationale

Guinean troops trigger panic in renewed Sierra Leone border standoff

A long-running border dispute between Sierra Leone and Guinea has flared again, after a military incident forced villagers to flee and reignited diplomatic tensions between the two West African neighbours.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re ready to fight’: activists brace as US anti-rights figures descend on Africa

Ultra-conservative campaigners fly in for ‘family values’ conferences to share tactics with African allies who oppose abortion and LGBTQ+ rights

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Ukraine minerals deal: the idea that natural resource extraction can build peace has been around for decades

Ukraine has finally signed its minerals agreement with the US. The deal states that Washington will eventually receive a share of the profits from the sale of Ukrainian natural resources, providing an economic incentive to continue investing in Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction.

The Independent UK

Sierra Leone has a problem with the drug Kush. Why are these women not being helped?

Sierra Leone's government has declared a public health emergency over the drug Kush.

The Independent UK

Sierra Leone debates decriminalizing abortion as women and girls endanger their lives

Sierra Leone could become the second country in West Africa to decriminalize abortion

The Guardian - UK

Man granted right to remain in UK under Windrush scheme after almost 50 years

Samuel Jarrett-Coker, 61, who arrived from Sierra Leone as a child, had sought to resolve immigration status since 1980s

Evening Standard

Scientists tell life story of ‘beloved’ tea-drinking celebrity chimp

Choppers starred in the 1970s PG Tips adverts after being rescued from poachers in Sierra Leone at just six weeks old.

The Guardian - UK

Sierra Leone’s immigration chief fired after footage showed him with fugitive drug lord

President sacks Alusine Kanneh after video of him with Johannes Leijdekkers, one of Europe’s most wanted

The Guardian - AU

Three suicides at NSW detention centre raise inquest questions over missed medication and care

A New Zealander, Malaysian and Sierra Leone national separately killed themselves inside Villawood over a three-year period

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