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Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone amputees, Black amputees, amputees, disabilities, theGrio.com
December 27, 2024
While Sierra Leone's government doesn't collect data on amputees, the United Nations estimates about 500,000 disabled in the country.
January 4, 2024
Former President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with treason for his alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt in…
June 24, 2023
Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio has faced increasing criticism because of debilitating economic conditions.
VigilCandles thegrio.com
October 6, 2022
Journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay, who in a distinguished career covered Sierra Leone for The Associated Press for nearly four decades from…
September 10, 2022
Sam Jalloh's move to encourage young Africans by showing them images of Frances Tiafoe, an American with Sierra Leone roots,…
April 24, 2022
Here’s the stunning part: Despite their two-year age difference and divergent paths, the brothers have never played football together.
November 6, 2021
The oil tanker exploded, severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials Saturday.
Frances Tiafoe tennis thegrio.com
June 28, 2021
Stefanos Tsitsipas was booted out of Wimbledon in the first round after suffering a 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 defeat to America's…
Sarah Culberson Sierra Leone www.theGrio.com
December 18, 2020
Sarah Culberson began searching for her biological family at 28 years old and found she is related to African royalty…
Julius Maada thegrio.com
February 9, 2019
Sexual crimes in Sierra Leone have increased and are violent with the victims being minors, prompting the president to declare…
Mae Jemison
May 24, 2018
Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space got a chance to have an emotional reunion with a man whose…
Sierra Leone
March 30, 2018
Tensions continue to rise in Sierra Leone leading up to their long-awaited polling day to elect a new president as…
November 20, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is offering immigrants from the three countries at the center of West Africa’s Ebola crisis
November 17, 2014
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died Monday while being treated in…
October 27, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - American media coverage of the Ebola virus is "bizarre,"according to one veteran CNN anchor. CNN International anchor…
October 7, 2014
OPINION - OMG EBOLA IS HERE! EVERYBODY PANIC. No. Don’t. I’m just kidding. Although many people already have started, so…
October 6, 2014
Top government health officials say they are opposed to placing a ban on travelers from Ebola-infected countries, warning that shutting…
November 14, 2013
NBC NEWS - Almost one in five Africans were forced to pay a bribe in the past year just to…
October 10, 2013
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was convicted for sponsoring atrocities in Sierra Leone, will…
September 27, 2013
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — An international war crimes court upheld the conviction and 50-year sentence of former Liberian President Charles…