Every year, the rainy season in Sierra Leone comes with its usual ferocity and destruction of lives and property. And every year, the response from government and society remains the same. Such a business-as-usual attitude and reckless environmental stewardship must change if Freetown is to remain a viable community, with ...

On a cool Thursday morning, just as the sun rises over Freetown and the heat peaks, about 45 women gather along Lumley Beach. They have taken on the onerous and elaborate job of cleaning up the beach, which has become an unsightly graveyard of all manner of plastic waste, from ...