Liberia has over the years made significant progress after conducting at least four credible presidential and legislative elections. Unlike the peaceful transition in Liberia, Sierra Leone has ...

Sierra Leone and Liberia also faced up to the atrocities of the wars, at least to some degree. Both held Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs), which heard from both victims and perpetrators.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, Oct 30 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has resumed the repatriation of Sierra Leonean refugees from Liberia to Sierra Leone by airlifting 10 families into Freetown's Lungi ...

Situated in coastal West Africa, Sierra Leone is Liberia’s neighbor to the west. While both countries enjoy vibrant cultural and ethnic distinctions, they share a common use of the English ...

Against that backdrop, my visit to Liberia and Sierra Leone caused me to reflect on how America’s own education system arose. In 1905, just one-third of children who enrolled in first grade ever ...

UNHCR has temporarily suspended convoys ferrying Sierra Leoneans returning home from Liberia after a sharp drop in the number of those going back. The decrease followed a surge in late December in the ...

The Liberian government has ties with a brutal rebel movement, the RUF, in neighbouring Sierra Leone - but has insisted that it is not involved in diamond-smuggling or gun-running for the rebels.

Health authorities in Liberia have begun strengthening cross-border surveillance at the country's border with Sierra Leone to enhance case detection, diagnostics, and care for suspected or ...

Whilst sporadic fighting with the rebels has continued in the northern Lofa county area of Liberia since the civil war ended in 1997, the present hostilities appear to be on a much larger scale.

The army blockaded on Thursday rural areas in Sierra Leone that have been hit by the deadly Ebola virus, a senior officer said, after neighbouring Liberia declared a state of emergency to tackle ...