According to the new World Bank Sierra Leone Economic Update launched in Freetown, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the country’s medium-term growth prospects and the ...

Ever since the UN ’s World Health Organisation ( WHO) declared mpox a “public-health emergency of international concern” a ...

Ambulance & life-saving COVID-19 equipment, including oxygen concentrators & test kits, donated by African Development Bank Group & World Health Organization (WHO)to ...

Sentinel scientists collaborating to sequence mpox samplesKat Kendon—Kendon Photography A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61% ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone 's capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of decomposing waste. Zainab sits there, squinting through the soot. It is her ...