So, yeah, Africa’s food security challenge is massive. But it’s not hopeless. Sierra Leone has everything it needs — fertile ...

Minister Henry Musa Kpaka is in Makeni, northern Sierra Leone, having just completed a day-long engagement with farmers, braving relentless rain. Tired but determined, he settles in at the first stop ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The U.N.’s World Food Program on Saturday delivered emergency food rations to 265,000 people, many of them quarantined in Sierra Leone, to help fight the spread of Ebola.

For more than 30 years, The World Food Prize has sought to enlist young people to help solve problems of world hunger. Now it's extending those efforts abroad to countries where hunger is an ...

Through investment, Sierra Leone plans to build critical infrastructure to upscale its agricultural production to mitigate food insecurity and expand exports. Sierra Leone is taking on chunks of ...

Evan receives funding from Arrell Family Foundation, the University of Guelph, a range of sources through different Canadian Government programs (e.g. The Canada First Research Excellence Fund and the ...

The new economic update for Sierra Leone points to worsening food insecurity against the backdrop of magnified economic vulnerabilities due to external shocks and domestic economic policy slippages.

Over the centuries, Sierra Leone has been a place of refuge. The Limba peoples were drawn by whispers of a land untouched by turmoil in Africa’s Sahelian kingdoms, and other tribes set out for there ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of a United Nations agency says up to 40 percent of farms have been abandoned in areas of Sierra Leone affected the worst by the Ebola outbreak. Kanayo Nwanze, president ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food aid is reaching thousands who survived a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on ...