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SIERRA LEONE

Japanese police have arrested nine individuals for their alleged involvement in a special fraud case using Sierra Leone as a base.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 2, 2026
Japanese police arrest nine over Sierra Leone-based special fraud
So far, police investigations have typically focused on fraud groups based in Southeast Asia and targeting people in Japan.
Sierra Leone, ridden by Flavien Prat, wins the Breeder's Cup Classic on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Horse Racing
Nov 3, 2024
Sierra Leone finds redemption in Breeders¡¯ Cup Classic
Fierceness finished in second while Japan¡¯s Forever Young was third.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 17, 2022
Invest in nature and reap cash benefits, World Economic Forum urges cities
A nature revival project, carried out in the early 2000s, has lowered traffic, flooding and temperatures, stimulated nearly $2 billion in urban redevelopment.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 6, 2021
Fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone capital kills at least 91
Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 14, 2018
Struggling Sierra Leone¡¯s sick go untreated amid paralyzing strike by doctors
Seven-year-old Carlos Kamara needs urgent surgery on a collapsed lung after he swallowed a toy whistle. Instead, all he can do is lie in pain in a half-empty hospital ward waiting to be seen.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2018
To stop Ebola, Congo targets malaria in outbreak zone
Health workers on Wednesday launched a door-to-door, four-day blitz to control malaria in Democratic Republic of Congo with the aim of cutting suspected Ebola cases in half.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 5, 2017
Sierra Leone Peace Diamond nets $6.5 million in auction to raise funds for West African nation
Sierra Leone sold one of the world¡¯s largest uncut diamonds for $6.5 million at a New York auction Monday to raise funds for development projects in the West African country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2017
Sierra Leone mudslide death toll now at 499 with 600 still missing
Rescue workers have unearthed 499 dead bodies since last week¡¯s devastating landslide near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown, the city¡¯s chief coroner told Reuters on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 18, 2017
Sierra Leone holds mass burial for over 300, braces for more downpours, mudslides
Sierra Leone is bracing for more floods as the country is burying the casualties of a mudslide that killed hundreds of people in the capital, Freetown.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 17, 2017
Food aid reaches thousands devastated by Sierra Leone mudslide
Food aid is reaching thousands who survived a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone¡¯s capital, Freetown, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Wednesday, two days after 400 people died and more than 3,000 were left homeless.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2017
Sierra Leone pastor finds 706-carat diamond, turns it over for good of the state
A Christian pastor has found one of the world¡¯s largest uncut diamonds ¡ª weighing 706 carats ¡ª in Sierra Leone¡¯s eastern Kono region.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 16, 2015
Heads of Ebola-hit nations meet Obama
President Barack Obama met with the presidents of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia at the White House on Wednesday to pledge more U.S. support for the nations hardest-hit by the Ebola virus.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 2, 2015
As cases ease, Sierra Leone ready to lay off Ebola workers
Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Wednesday authorities would soon start laying off staff recruited to fight Ebola as the numbers of cases decline, but these workers would be employed elsewhere, where possible.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 26, 2015
New Ebola infections continue to drop but Guinea still a concern
The three nations hardest hit by West Africa¡¯s Ebola epidemic recorded the lowest weekly total of new cases so far this year in the week leading up to March 22, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 17, 2015
Liberia reopens dozens of schools as Ebola wanes
Thousands of Liberian children in pristine uniforms flocked back to school on Monday as classrooms opened their doors for the first time after a six-month hiatus designed to stem the spread of the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 2, 2015
Sierra Leone¡¯s president calls for week of fasting, prayer over Ebola
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma asked the country to begin a week of fasting and prayers on Thursday to end the Ebola virus that has killed more than 2,700 of his countrymen.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 1, 2015
Ebola spreading in Sierra Leone as global cases top 20,000, deaths exceed 7,900: WHO
The Ebola virus is still spreading in West Africa, especially in Sierra Leone, and the number of known cases globally has now exceeded 20,000, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 18, 2014
Health teams scour Sierra Leone capital in Ebola drive
Health workers in Sierra Leone began combing the streets of Freetown for Ebola patients on Wednesday, moving house-to-house as the government launched a major operation to contain infections in West Africa¡¯s worst-hit country.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 12, 2014
Sierra Leone locks down new Ebola hotspot in the east
Authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a two-week lockdown in the eastern district of Kono after health workers uncovered a surge of Ebola infections in the area where the epidemic was thought to be largely under control.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 2, 2014
WHO: Sierra Leone¡¯s Ebola prognosis ¡®very good¡¯
Sierra Leone does not yet have enough beds in treatment centers to isolate Ebola patients in the west of the country but the opening of many new facilities in the next few weeks makes its prognosis ¡°very good,¡± the World Health Organization¡¯s assistant director general said on Monday.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ?3,000 from ?1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men¡¯s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan¡¯s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan¡¯s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
¡®My dream is broken¡¯: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
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Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan¡¯s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan¡¯s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan¡¯s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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