Sierra Leone

Netherlands offers €2m bounty for capture of cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers

Jos Leijdekkers is a Dutch who has been living in Sierra Leone for the past years.

Trump deportees to Sierra Leone risk being forced home, rights group says

US President Donald Trump returns to the White House after disembarking from Marine One, following his visit to Iowa, in Washington, DC, US, October 23, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

EU cuts aid to Sierra Leone over its help to convicted cocaine kingpin, Netherlands says

Dutch Minister of Justice and Security David van Weel speaks during a press conference of the European Coalition for Civil Preparedness and Resilience meeting in Helsinki, Finland. April 16, 2026. Lehtikuva/ Emmi Korhonen/via REUTERS

US expels dozens of people to ‘loophole’ African deportation hubs, say lawyers

Deportees who cannot legally be sent home are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone (above), Ghana and the Central African Republic, the lawyers say.

West African bloc calls for Guinea-Bissau opposition leader's release

FILE PHOTO: Presidential candidate Domingos Simoes Pereira holds a meeting with students at Lusophone university in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau November 21, 2019. REUTERS/ Christophe Van Der Perre/File Photo

Three tankers reportedly attacked by drones in Black Sea, shipping agency says

FILE PHOTO: Palau-flagged crude oil tanker James II transits the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, December 21, 2024. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik/File Photo

Sierra Leone receives first group of West African deportees from US

Sierra Leone to take in hundreds of West Africans deported by US, minister says

Libyan court jails four human traffickers for up to 22 years, attorney general says

Sierra Leone says members of its security forces held by Guinea in border dispute

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