After 25 years as a midwife in the U.K., Dumbuya returned to her homeland to help run a state-of-the-art maternity center ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she ...

Fatima Bio, the first lady of Sierra Leon (center), poses with Sierra Leoneans of Utah at Utah World Trade Center Women's Breakfast. She spoke about rape and childhood marriage in Sierra Leon.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - They come from neighbouring countries, but crossed paths in the tangled web of war in West Africa. Manu Famuley, a Liberian matriarch, recently fled to Sierra Leone to ...

In a heart-warming and jubilant celebration, Her Excellency Fatima Maada Bio, the First Lady of Sierra Leone, was captured on video joining other women of the West African country in a spirited dance, ...

KAMBIA, Sierra Leone, Dec 2 (UNHCR) - The women of Kawula village say they have traded in blisters for beauty and regained freshness where they were once out of breath, all thanks to machines provided ...

A growing initiative is helping incarcerated women in Africa become certified soccer coaches An official soccer coaching program for incarcerated women is making waves across African correctional ...

Veralyn Williams knows that path to citizenship Mara was reporting on intimately. Williams grew up in New York City. Her family moved there from Sierra Leone when she as an infant and she always ...

Sierra Leone could become the second country in West Africa to decriminalize abortion. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her ...