In a statement following Sunday's announcement, Bio promised to prioritise democracy, security cooperation, economic integration and institutional credibility.

Tinubu was first elected ECOWAS Chairman on July 9, 2023, in Guinea-Bissau and re-elected a year later in Abuja to continue ...

With a call on regional leaders to remain vigilant and responsive to the evolving needs of citizens, particularly youth, ...

New ECOWAS chair Julius Maada Bio inherits a bloc grappling with jihadist violence, military coups and a shrinking circle of ...

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 ...

The World Bank today launched the Sierra Leone Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) and the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR), two core analytical reports that provide essential insights into ...

Forgiveness, in political terms, is the refusal to be governed by past bitterness. It allows both citizens and institutions ...

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases surged by 71%. Roughly half of all confirmed mpox cases in Africa now come ...

Some has been taken over for marijuana plantations Sierra Leone is battling drug problems and land grabbing is also rife to satisfy demographic pressures. Nearly a third, or 5,600 hectares of the ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The number of cases of mpox registered in Sierra Leone since the beginning of the year has hit 2,045, with 11 fatalities, according to a new report by the country’s ...

In Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, a vast landfill choked with smoke from decades of decomposing waste serves as an unlikely marketplace for a devastating drug. Amid the billowing soot and the ...