"I never killed anyone," he added. Stories like Bassie's abound in Sierra Leone, a small nation in West Africa with more than 300km of coastline sandwiched between Guinea and Liberia. The country ...

On a map, Sierra Leone appears as a relatively small dot ... Bunce Island was a crucial slaving port in West Africa from where captives were transported to Europe and The Americas.

Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone experienced positive improvements in political ...