More than 1,000 people have died from the mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone’s capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and a minister said Sunday during services honoring the disaster’s victims.

The death toll from massive landslides in Sierra Leone has reached almost 400, with hundreds of others still missing, authorities say.

Sierra Leone has buried 461 victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the capital this week, an official at the central morgue said on Friday.

The death toll from massive landslides in Sierra Leone has reached almost 400, with hundreds of others still missing, authorities say.

At least 312 people have been killed and more than 2,000 left homeless when a mudslide and heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, leaving hospitals struggling to cope.

Sierra Leone's vice president has applied for asylum at the US embassy in the capital city of Freetown and is waiting for a decision on his case, a source says.

Sierra Leone, one of the three worst Ebola-stricken West African countries, has managed to curb the Ebola outbreak, World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nation’s officials say.

A British navy mission has arrived in Sierra Leone in what is claimed to be part of a campaign to fight the deadly outbreak of Ebola in its former colony.

A third United Nations employee has been killed by the deadly Ebola virus in the West African country of Sierra Leone.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague has confirmed a 50-year jail term handed down to former Liberian president Charles Taylor, judicial sources say.

Sierra Leone's main opposition party, Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) has rescinded its boycott of Parliament and local councils on Friday and directed its members to take part in all government functions.

As Sierra Leoneans await the final results of their general election held on Saturday, both local and foreign observers have hailed the exercise as "well conducted."

Sierra Leone's general election has been moving calm and peaceful since kicked off early Saturday.

Sierra Leone's general election started smoothly on Saturday morning. Over 2.6 million registered voters out of about 6 million populations are expected to vote in 9493 polling stations all around the Western African country at 0700 GMT for the president, parliamentarians and local councilors.

Sierra Leone is to have its general election on Saturday, and the related sides here are ready for it Friday.

It was 9 a.m. on May 25, 1998. Borboh Jeff Kamara, 14, was walking to school with classmates when rebels grabbed him, held him down and cut off his fingers, leaving only his thumbs.

FREETOWN, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 300,000 Sierra Leone children are critically malnourished, the country's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sidiki Dao said here Tuesday.

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Sierra Leone and China have signed a $15 million (12 million euro) loan agreement for the installation of a fibre optic cable which will boost Internet capabilities, national radio reported Tuesday.

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Sierra Leone's government said Tuesday it had issued provisional offshore oil prospecting awards to nine companies after what it described as a "painstaking and time consuming technical evaluation process."

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone's health ministry says a cholera outbreak has sickened more than 3,800 and killed 66 people since January.