How do you define peace in a country where children die because hospitals lack oxygen? How do you rank as peaceful a nation ruled by fear, ...

The synthetic drug kush, first seen in Sierra Leone in 2022, has now spread into much of West Africa while also evolving into ...

In The Gambia, where kush has started crossing over, the government’s no-nonsense raids have driven the industry underground but not out. Blame is already taking a xenophobic turn, with Sierra ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

Parliament has formally launched a region-wide campaign to fight the spread of kush, a deadly psychoactive drug that is ...

The small Western African state earlier this month concluded a round of seismic research that it now hopes would lure ...

A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared ...

Kush, a synthetic cocktail usually made from marshmallow leaves, first appeared in Sierra Leone in the early 2020s and ...

By Stanley Senya Accra, June 27, GNA-Actor and philanthropist Idris Elba and Sherbro Alliance Partners (SAP) have been formally granted approval by the Parliament of Sierra Leone ...

Lassana, 28, is from Guinea. He has been addicted to kush for six years, and the drug has gradually taken over his life. He ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility ...