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3 hours ago

From New York to Sierra Leone: a sister’s search for ‘just another missing black woman’

Oluwaseun Babalola’s film Fighting Giants is an exploration of the misogyny and racism encountered by her family as they attempted to uncover the truth behind her sibling’s disappearance seven years …

5 hours ago

Tell us how you might be affected by Trump’s new travel ban

We would like to hear from people from the 19 affected countries on what the travel ban might mean for them

Donald Trump has announced an order banning travel from 12 countries and restricting travel …

35 hours ago

Trump signs order banning citizens of 12 countries from entering the US

Nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti and Sudan ‘fully’ restricted as those of seven other countries partially restricted

Donald Trump has signed a sweeping order banning travel from 1…

87 days ago

Sierra Leone’s immigration chief fired after footage showed him with fugitive drug lord

President sacks Alusine Kanneh after video of him with Johannes Leijdekkers, one of Europe’s most wanted

Sierra Leone’s president has fired the head of the immigration service days after footage was p…

3 months ago

Revealed: fugitive Dutch drug lord has been in Sierra Leone for at least two years

Sources place Johannes Leijdekkers in west African country since at least December 2022

One of Europe’s most-wanted drug lords has been living in Sierra Leone for at least two years, spending time at …

Fears grow for health of social media influencer arrested on live TV in Sierra Leone

Hawa Hunt’s detention a month ago was politically motivated, say daughter and rights groups, who also raise concerns about her treatment in jail

Fears are mounting over the mental and physical health …

Ex-Royal Marine is cleared in just 17 minutes of stirring up racial hatred on Facebook following Southport murders after spending 20 days remanded in prison

Jamie Michael, 46, from Penygraig, southeast Wales, served in the Iraq War and was twice sent to Sierra Leone as a peacekeeper.

4 months ago

One of Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers living in Sierra Leone, say Dutch prosecutors

Jos Leijdekkers, reportedly the son-in-law of African country’s president, was sentenced to 24 years in prison

One of Europe’s most wanted men, the Dutch crime boss Jos Leijdekkers, is hiding out in S…

5 months ago

Girl, 11, rescued off Italian coast after three days clinging to tyre tubes

Girl from Sierra Leone is only person rescued after shipwreck that is feared to have killed more than 40 people

An 11-year-old girl, wearing a simple life vest and clinging to a pair of tyre tubes, ha…

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