Adeeza is 15 years old. Her family traveled to Accra about two months ago from Niger. Her mother tells her she should not speak with me and my colleague but she goes on telling her story. They left their village– where she says they lived comfortably– at six o’clock in the morning one day and [...]

For a westerner, the amount of a JHR fellowship in Sierra Leone is about equivalent to a phone bill. For a Salone journalist, it can and does open doors to bright new futures … for both themselves and their communities. Read on…

They sleep under the wharf that reaches out over the Atlantic Ocean or beneath the rickety market stalls in the city centre. At night, on Rawdon Street in a district called “PZ”, rows of coughing bodies plaster the uneven stoops. There are an estimated 2,000 boys living on the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital [...]

Sierra Leone has just been connected to its first high-speed fibre optic internet cable. With it come promises of economic and social development in a post-conflict nation with a heavy reliance on foreign aid. Sierra Leone was passed over by several West African high-speed cable projects while in the midst of a devastating eleven-year civil [...]