Sierra Leone Lifts School Ban on Pregnant Girls

Pregnant girls in Sierra Leone will now be able to attend school At the end of March, a 10 year ban preventing pregnant girls from attending school and accessing education was lifted in Sierra Leone. This is a fantastic step in the direction of gender equality across...

Girl Soldiers: Sierra Leone

The Civil War in Sierra Leone started in 1991 and lasted for 11 years, taking the lives of over 50,000 people, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and leaving thousands of people with permanent injuries. One of the big casualties of this war were...

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