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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationAfrican governments warned of lawsuits for maternal deaths under COVID-19 lockdownsExclusive: Women have died or suffered unsafe births after transport bans, while hospitals report rising equipment shortages.
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Published in: Frontline InsightsWhen child traffickers work across West Africa’s borders, activists need help to do the sameGuinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone share many things – including a problem of child trafficking. Local organisations...
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Published in: HomeThe lingering legacy of Ebola in Sierra LeoneAs the deadly disease appears in Congo, Sierra Leone is still counting the cost of its 2014 epidemic.
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Published in: 50.50Can Sierra Leone’s female secret societies be allies in the fight against female genital mutilation?FGM is a deeply-rooted and widespread practice in the country. Can its locally-powerful practitioners help curtail it?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Interviewing Babah Tarawally, Dutch novelist and former refugee from Sierra LeoneBabah Tarawally’s message is one of hope; he urges refugees to emancipate themselves from both a racist or...
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Published in: 50.50Ebola: exposing the failure of international developmentThe Ebola crisis has revealed the consequences of deep-seated, unequal global social and economic relations that...
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Published in: HomeResponses to Ebola are still way too little, and may now be too lateThe lack of ambulances, hospital beds, and even plastic gloves have all played a role in allowing the disease to get...
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Published in: openSecurityEbola: between public health and private profitKnown to the international community since 1976, why has the world dragged its feet for decades to find a vaccine...
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Published in: HomeDignity and humanity in the face of sufferingDirector Boris Gerrets demonstrates that dignity and humanity can exist even in the most seemingly undignified and...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Sierra Leone: Resisting dispossession
Women are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and...
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Published in: Home2011, trepidation and hope
A topsy-turvy year full of dramatic reversals left sub-Saharan Africa still in search of of the balance that would...
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Published in: HomeSeen and not heard: women in Sri Lanka's reconciliation commission
Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission has no mention of gender in its mandate and no dedicated...
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Published in: HomeBound to violence: young lives in Freetown
Civil war ended a decade ago, but the huge population of young people in the West African state of Sierra Leone must...
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Published in: HomeHealing Sierra Leone: challenges facing the Commission of Inquiry
Messeh Kamara issues an emotional call for reconciliation, courage and openness as Sierra Leone reexamines its past...
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Published in: openSecurityPrivatising Africa's everyday security
Industrial action by guards at the World Cup highlights the growing prevalence of private firms in the provision of...
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Published in: HomeSchools and sex abuse in Sierra LeoneHumu Tavawallie went to school for an education, but was forced into sex with her teacher to pay for her exams. This...
