President Julius Maada Bio is seeking a second term amid a crippling cost-of-living crisis that sparked deadly riots last year. Twelve men and one woman are vying for the top job, though Bio’s main ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Voters in Sierra Leone were deciding Saturday whether to give President Julius Maada Bio a second term amid high unemployment and growing concern about the state of the West ...

The soaring cost of living in Sierra Leone could push some of children out of education. Over the past year, Sierra Leone’s fuel price has steadily risen and in March it was hiked from 12,000 leones ...

Joseph Sakendu Jones Jr. is a student at the University of Arizona, majoring in political science. He originally is from Sierra Leone, West Africa, and came to the United States as a refugee in 2000.

World Pulse is a social networking platform connecting women worldwide for change. Like many people around the world, I was watching the news when I first saw the image of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old ...

Welcome to the What's Your Story podcast. This episode features Vivian Mansaray, author and war survivor, who shares how the Sierra Leone war changed her life. Don’t miss it!

In early summer 2002, a group of friends set out to make a documentary film about the role of music in refugee camps in West Africa. We didn't know what to expect, but after a chance meeting with the ...

When Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars play "Living Like a Refugee," it's clear they know what they're singing about. "Living like a refugee is not easy / It's really not easy," the All Stars tell us. ...