A new report released by an anti-transnational crime group has identified the core chemical components of kush, a synthetic drug that has swept through Sierra Leone and the region in the past few years.

A humanitarian rescue group says its sailboat plucked from the central Mediterranean an 11-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a shipwreck in stormy seas.

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine.

Sierra Leone has won the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic by 1 1/2 lengths at Del Mar.

Sierra Leone’s president says Africa cannot wait any longer to get a bigger voice in the United Nations’ most powerful body, the Security Council.

A new report has for the first time found traces of highly potent opioids known as nitazenes in drugs consumed in Africa’s retail drug market.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the new head of Liberia's forest management authority, Rudolph Merab, said he would work to increase timber exports and cut regulations.

Mystik Dan won the 150th Kentucky Derby in a dramatic three-horse photo finish, edging out Sierra Leone and Forever Young for the upset victory.

A Sierra Leone government spokesman says that a former president has been called in for questioning by police over recent attacks that officials say was a failed coup.

Sierra Leone’s president has declared a nationwide curfew after gunmen attacked the West African country's main military barracks in the capital and then broke into detention centers and abducted or freed the occupants.

In an election reflecting strong global opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine, NATO and European Union member Slovenia has overwhelmingly defeated Moscow’s close ally Belarus for a seat on the U.N. Security Council starting in January.

A Lebanese Cabinet minister and the Ukrainian embassy say the scheduled arrival of the first grain ship to leave Ukraine and cross the Black Sea under a wartime deal has been delayed.

Authorities say at least 98 people are dead and 30 others critically wounded after an oil tanker truck exploded near Sierra Leone's capital.

Guinea has officially declared an Ebola epidemic Monday Feb. 15, 2021, after at least three people have died and others have been infected in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay-File)DAKAR – Guinea has officially declared it has an Ebola epidemic after at least three people have died and four others have been infected in the West African nation. Guinea's new Ebola outbreak occurred in N’Zerekore, in southern Guinea, where health officials detected suspicious cases of Ebola with patients presenting symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding. Ad“The government reassures the population that all measures are being taken to stem this epidemic as quickly as possible. Guinea’s announcement comes more than a week after eastern Congo confirmed it has four cases of Ebola.

Tunisian authorities say 20 African migrants have been found dead after their boat, which was trying to reach Europe, sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Five survivors were rescued Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 and authorities are searching for up to 20 others believed missing. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)TUNIS – About 20 African migrants were found dead Thursday after their smuggling boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe, Tunisian authorities said. Five survivors were rescued and the Tunisian navy is searching for up to 20 others still believed missing. According to survivors, the migrant smuggling boat was carrying about 40 or 50 people heading toward Italy, Ben Zekri said.

“Sadly, we have seen an increase in child marriage in refugee camps since the beginning of the pandemic as families struggle to cope,” said Tanya Chapuisat, the UNICEF representative for Jordan. Similarly, in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, child protection services reported 17 child marriages that were stopped or later dissolved in the first 10 months of the year. Child protection authorities in Bangladesh said they received an 8:30 p.m. call back in June warning that a child marriage was to take place within the hour. The girl’s family thought they could use the lockdown to marry off their daughter in secret. Then COVID-19 hit, schools closed in March and child marriages accelerated as many village girls who had been attending classes in nearby towns returned home to their parents.

At the time, Baldeh, 32, was the only physician treating COVID-19 patients at Sierra Leone’s main public hospital. Now there have been hundreds of cases and the staff at the hospital’s COVID-19 unit has swelled to four doctors and 20 nurses. In July doctors went on strike to demand hazard pay for working in the COVID-19 unit. Even before the coronavirus, doctors in Sierra Leone often would go on strike for better pay and essential supplies. Many of the healthcare workers who have died didn’t necessarily get it from working in the COVID-19 unit, Baldeh said.