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Parts of downed Shahed drones launched by Russia are piled in a storage room of a research laboratory in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine

By Emma Burrows and Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. The hospital was once known among locals as the "Crase Yard," or yard for crazy people. Now it's known as the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital. It has helped give the facility, the oldest of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, a new reputation. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Sierra Leone not long ago still chained mental health patients. A transformation is underway

By Kemo Cham - Associated Press

Sierra Leone, with jockey Tyler Gaffalione, (2), Forever Young, with jockey Ryusei Sakai, and Mystik, with jockey Dan Brian Hernandez Jr., cross finish line at Churchill Downs during the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Mystik Dan wins Kentucky Derby by a nose in a 3-horse photo finish

By Beth Harris - Associated Press

FILE - The streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone, are empty during a curfew on Sunday, Nov, 26, 2023. The attacks on Sierra Leone’s main military barracks and prisons are a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government’s spokesman said Tuesday. (AP Photo/TJ Bade, File)

13 Sierra Leone military officers are under arrest for trying to stage a coup, a minister says

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone, speaks at the start of the Transforming Education Summit at United Nations headquarters, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Sierra Leone’s President has declared a nationwide curfew after gunmen attacked the West African country's main military barracks in the capital, raising fears of a breakdown of order amid a surge of coups in the region. Bio said Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the unidentified gunmen attacked an armory in the capital, Freetown, early morning. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Sierra Leone’s leader says most behind the weekend attacks are arrested, but few details are given

By Chinedu Asadu and Kemo Cham - Associated Press

Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone, speaks at the start of the Transforming Education Summit at United Nations headquarters, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Sierra Leone’s President has declared a nationwide curfew after gunmen attacked the West African country's main military barracks in the capital, raising fears of a breakdown of order amid a surge of coups in the region. Bio said Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the unidentified gunmen attacked an armory in the capital, Freetown, early morning. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Curfew in Sierra Leone after gunmen attacked the main military barracks and detention centers

By Kemo Cham and Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio speaks to reporters after casting his ballot in Sierra Leone general elections in Freetown, Saturday June 24, 2023. Sierra Leoneans are selecting their next president amid mounting frustration due to an ailing economy, rising unemployment and the loom of deadly protests (AP Photo/TJ Bade)

Sierra Leone’s president wins second term without need for runoff, election commission announces

By Kemo Cham - Associated Press

A bulldozer clears the fallen Cotton Tree in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday May 25, 2023. Sierra Leone's centuries-old iconic Cotton Tree, seen as a symbol of liberty and freedom by early settlers, fell during torrential rains in the capital causing a great loss to the nation and leaving "a gap in our hearts", President Julius Maada Bio told The Associated Press on Thursday. (AP Photo/TJ Bade)

Centuries-old cotton tree, a national symbol for decades, felled by storm in Sierra Leone

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone, speaks at the start of the Transforming Education Summit at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Sierra Leone president signs women’s rights bill into law

By Clarice Roy-Macaulay - Associated Press

African Cup qualifier canceled over disputed COVID-19 tests

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Guinea declares Ebola epidemic, neighboring countries act

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Sierra Leonean national Gibril Massaquoi, 51, wears a face mask as he attends his trial at the Pirkanmaa District Court in Tampere, Finland, Wednesday Feb. 3, 2021, accused of committing war crimes during Liberia's second civil war two decades ago. Massaquoi faces several charges including dozens of murders, eight rapes as well as aggravated war crimes and aggravated human rights violations during Liberia's 1999-2003 war. (Kalle Parkkinen/Lehtikuva via AP)

Sierra Leone man on trial in Finland for Liberian war crimes

By JARI TANNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr., spoke, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped King found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, the family said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Marie poses for a portrait in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 16-year-old didn’t want to get married, but when her now-husband proposed, she and her family were struggling with the economic situation. For that reason she decided to get married. “Now we are together, so if he asks me to get pregnant, I will accept that”, she says. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Many African, Asian families marry off daughters amid virus

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Dr. Mamadu Baldeh, one of only four physicians managing the COVID-19 unit and the only one doing so while still overseeing the infectious diseases unit, is photographed outside the Connaught Hospital where he works in the capital Freetown, Sierra Leone Friday, May 8, 2020. Despite the loss of colleagues, Baldeh is fighting not only to save his coronavirus patients but also to provide quality care for those afflicted with other infectious diseases as he and other health care workers fight for a better system. (Vicki Remoe/VRC Marketing via AP)

Sierra Leone doctor in dedicated mission against COVID-19

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

5-year-old girl paralyzed by rape shocks Sierra Leone

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Sierra Leone president declares rape a national emergency

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY - Associated Press

In this Jan. 30, 2019 photo, Dr. Rick Sacra speaks to the Associated Press at his home in Holden, Mass. Sacra, a Massachusetts doctor who was among a handful of Americans treated and cured of Ebola in 2014, is being honored for his work in Liberia through the deadly epidemic. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

US doctor who survived Ebola honored for service in Liberia

By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

Sierra Leone soccer head barred from entering headquarters

By CLARENCE MACAULAY - Associated Press

Sierra Leone court postpones runoff vote until Saturday

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY - Associated Press