Starting in October 2025, the Entry Exit System (EES) is a biometric border check for travelers to the 29-country Schengen Area that will ease travel for non-Europeans to European countries.

The European Union Delegation to Sierra Leone hosted a heartfelt farewell ceremony on 15 August 2025 for this year’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Scholarship awardees ahead of their departure to Europe.

Sierra Leone’s history may be chequered, but its story is replete with narratives of resilience, strength and hope. Rising from the civil war, which ended in 2002, the country’s enduring spirit is evident in many sectors of the economy, including the roads sector, which has withstood years of an economic downturn, brought about mainly by three key events: the decade long civil war between 1991...

“Three countries, one road”, is a phrase that aptly describes West Africa’s triple frontier of Sierra Leone, two other Mano River Union countries of Liberia and Guinea, and the Trans West African coastal highway.