Sierra Leone refugees en route home. FREETOWN, Nov. 27 (UNHCR) - For the first time since the civil war began more than a decade ago, the U.N. refugee agency will shortly begin to help thousands of ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - In a desperate bid to slow West Africa's accelerating Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone ordered its 6 million people confined to their homes for three days starting Friday while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kids jump on tires over a sewage in a slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner By Kieran Guilbert ...

Lax security at Sierra Leone homes that have been quarantined fuels concerns about the Ebola virus spreading. Yiming Woo reports. 2026 NFL mock draft 4.0: With regular season over, Raiders, Jets take ...

Tens of thousands of people in Freetown, Sierra Leone, live in informal settlements dense with metal and concrete buildings that trap heat and make heatwaves more dangerous. An experiment has shown ...

Sierra Leone, a country that has been battered by Ebola, civil war and massive floods, suffered yet another tragedy this week. Government and international aid workers are racing the clock to find ...