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Sierra Leone has passed what has been described as a "ground-breaking" law to improve women's rights. The law states that 30 percent of public and private jobs must be reserved for women. Under the new Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act, women also benefit from ringfenced senior positions...

A Finnish court of appeal has begun hearing an international war crime case in which a Sierra Leonean man is charged with murders, rapes, and other atrocities during the Liberian civil war between 1999 and 2003. Prosecutors argued the 53-year-old suspect Gibril Massaquoi — who has denied any...

At least two police officers and one civilian died after a day of anti-government protests in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, staff at the city’s main mortuary. Sierra Leone’s government previously said there had been deaths, but did not say how many, as protesters threw rocks and burned tires in...

Sierra Leone became the 23rd African country and 110th worldwide to abolish the death penalty. President Julius Maada Bio, who signed the bill into law, said that the West African country and former British colony had “exorcised horrors of a cruel past” after a long campaign to end capital...