How do you define peace in a country where children die because hospitals lack oxygen? How do you rank as peaceful a nation ruled by fear, ...

Secrets swirl through homes and villages around the world, and in a poor district of Makeni, Sierra Leone, they involve what ...

The synthetic drug kush, first seen in Sierra Leone in 2022, has now spread into much of West Africa while also evolving into ...

In The Gambia, where kush has started crossing over, the government’s no-nonsense raids have driven the industry underground but not out. Blame is already taking a xenophobic turn, with Sierra ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

A red shipping container sits on the tarmac of Sierra Leone's Queen Elizabeth II Quay, under swinging cranes and towering stacks of similar steel boxes.

Parliament has formally launched a region-wide campaign to fight the spread of kush, a deadly psychoactive drug that is ...

The small Western African state earlier this month concluded a round of seismic research that it now hopes would lure ...

A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared ...

Kush, a synthetic cocktail usually made from marshmallow leaves, first appeared in Sierra Leone in the early 2020s and ...

The current mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone is the largest ever recorded in the country and the first major epidemic caused by the clade IIb monkeypox virus in Africa. Since a public health emergency ...