The Latest Breaking News from Sierra Leone

Abdul Jalloh was the only practicing psychiatrist in Sierra Leone when he took over the country’s sole psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of the capital

Abdul Karim Conteh, a national of Sierra Leone, was arrested in Tijuana last week. The U.S. is seeking his extradition

Earlier this year, Sierra Leone declared a national emergency on substance abuse, amid rising numbers of people addicted to a synthetic drug called kush. Sold for as little as 20 cents per hit, kush is wreaking havoc among young people. The drug, which is made from a mixture of cannabis…

A top court in Namibia has ruled colonial-era laws banning same-sex relationships were unconstitutional, in a case brought by a local LGBTQ+ activist. Also in the programme, Kenyan protesters call for a national shutdown to oppose new tax hikes. We also visit Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, where a chimpanzee refuge…

Recent findings reveal potent synthetic opioids, nitazenes, in African drug consumption, raising overdose concerns.

A new report has for the first time found traces of highly potent opioids known as nitazenes in drugs consumed in Africa’s retail drug market

Heathrow Airport in the UK currently uses more energy than the entire west African country of Sierra Leone. Despite Africa accounting for less than 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, many of its countries face significant threats from climate change, including increased droughts, floods, heat waves and potential crop…

You are walking through the bustling centre of Bo, Sierra Leone’s third largest city.

Sierra Leone this year declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat