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HISTORICAL FACTS: 3 | History Defined

From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?

Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people from across western Africa and the Americas made it their home.

The Conversation

'We fall and we rise': Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to farming to combat discrimination

Sierra Leone's brutal civil war from 1991-2002 created about 28,000 amputees

The Independent UK

Sierra Leone Student Tackles Toxic Air Pollution

In his small Freetown workshop, engineering student James Samba tinkered with batteries and electrical parts he hoped could help clean up Sierra Leone's polluting public transport system.

International Business Times

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Ib Kamara's guide to Freetown, Sierra Leone: Tokeh Beach, cassava leaf stew and Empire nightclub

The creative director at Off-White and editor-in-chief of Dazed tells Joe Bromley about the city where he was born

Evening Standard

Biden Administration Pressures Sierra Leone On Abortion Policy

The Biden administration pressures Sierra Leone to change abortion laws for foreign aid, sparking controversy and protests.

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Sierra Leone Wins Breeders' Cup Classic At Del Mar

Sierra Leone wins Breeders' Cup Classic, Chad Brown nears record, thrilling performances and upsets in horse racing event.

The Guardian - UK

City of Troy pays price for slow start in Breeders’ Cup Classic

City of Troy finished eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic after a slow break from the stalls in a race won by Sierra Leone, another Coolmore horse

The Guardian - UK

Sierra Leone claims Breeders’ Cup glory as City of Troy flops – as it happened

City Of Troy’s audacious challenge for the Breeders’ Cup Classic was over almost before it had begun

The Independent UK

Solar power companies are growing fast in Africa, where 600 million still lack electricity

Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change

The Conversation

Sierra Leone is working to transform its food system, but it faces mounting challenges

One of the most pressing issues facing humanity is the need to transform food systems to become more equitable, environmentally sustainable, able to deliver healthy diets for all, and also more resilient to disruptions.

The Conversation

Gangs’stories: The Sierra Leonian gangster who gave up violence and drugs for poetry

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

The Guardian - UK

Michaela DePrince obituary

American ballerina who defied the odds of her early childhood in wartorn Sierra Leone to perform with top dance companies

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