Michaela DePrince, Who Survived Sierra Leone’s Civil War to Become a Star Ballerina, Dies at 29
When Michaela DePrince was living in an orphanage during Sierra Leone’s civil war in the late 1990s, death was all around her ...
Kidnapped and trafficked twice - a sex worker's life in Sierra Leone
She has been beaten, robbed, kidnapped, trafficked to another country, rescued, trafficked and rescued again. Amidst all of ...
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Q&A: Sierra Leone's women farmers use a custom called bora to access land—but it's making them more vulnerable
In Sierra Leone, land ownership—and therefore use of land for farming—vests in men. Women's access to land for sustainable livelihoods is the subject of a Ph.D. by land rights scholar Bankolay ...
Sierra Leone is working to transform its food system, but it faces mounting challenges
The world faces compounding crises in food availability. Efforts in Sierra Leone to address these challenges could serve as a ...
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Sierra Leone Enshrines Equal Right of Women to Pass Nationality to Children
Following passage of an amended Citizenship Act in 2017, Sierra Leone now guarantees women and men the equal right to confer nationality on children. With this critical reform, only 25 countries ...
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BBC Africa Eye : The horrors that sex workers in Sierra Leone experience
The city lies in an area rich in diamonds, which fuelled Sierra Leone’s civil war - a conflict that has had devastating ...
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Deputies spar over deployment of Gambian troops to Sierra Leone
The motion was laid by the Vice President Muhammed B. S. Jallow. Hon. Lamin Ceesay, of Kiang West, stressed that: “The Gambia is a country that has undergone so many attempted coups. However, there ...
Program: Anti-poverty lending in Sierra Leone sends some women into debt and jail
The promises and failures of microfinance, told through the eyes of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
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Sierra Leone
The IRC works with communities across Sierra Leone to strengthen vital health and education services, provide livelihood opportunities to youth, and empower women and girls. What caused the current ...
At UN, growing calls for reversal of latest Taliban edict against women
A dozen U.N. Security Council ambassadors strongly condemned on Friday the Afghan Taliban’s recent “morality law” which ...
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Sierra Leone’s women farmers use a custom called bora to access land – but it’s making them more vulnerable
But bora has changed over the years and is having a negative impact on women, who are responsible for much of the west African country’s farming. In Sierra Leone, land ownership – and ...
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Sierra Leone's Women Farmers Use a Custom Called Bora to Access Land - but It's Making Them More Vulnerable
But bora has changed over the years and is having a negative impact on women, who are responsible for much of the west African country's farming. In Sierra Leone, land ownership - and therefore ...