Homes along the dirt road of Kombayendeh village, in Lei chiefdom, district of Kono, Sierra Leone. AP. Similarly, in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, child protection services reported 17 ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

Craters filled with muddy water pocket the landscape of the Kono district in Sierra Leone – the result of a blood diamond ...

Houses stand next to a diamond mining site in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Mining operations have slowed with the global economy.

KOIDU, Sierra Leone (AP) — The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader.

Name and location Kono project, Kono district, Sierra Leone. Project description Kono is a kimberlite project with several identified fissures already known, from which small-scale production is ...

KONO, Sierra Leone, June 30 (UNHCR) - A gender revolution is simmering in the diamond-rich district of Kono in eastern Sierra Leone. It has nothing to do with gems, and everything to do with genning ...

KOIDU, Sierra Leone, May 28 (UNHCR) - As the repatriation of Sierra Leonean refugees from Guinea and Liberia winds down, UNHCR has opened a new building in eastern Sierra Leone's Kono district to cope ...

The ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party has won 60% of the seats in a parliamentary election, the election commission said on Saturday, as the main opposition party demanded a rerun of the vote ...

"So I find myself in Kono (the district around Koidu) to find diamonds." Read full story Artisanal diamond miners work at Tumbodu, north of the town of Koidu in eastern Sierra Leone, March 3.

KOIDU, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - The rapid response team has arrived and the chaos is easing, but medics in a remote Sierra Leonean district are struggling to control a local Ebola outbreak when it ...