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• Sierra Leone

  Sierra Leone school defies state ban on pregnant girls in class

  17 July 2019, by NICODAMUS Pearl

  A 15-year-old Sierra Leone learner Mariatu Sesay realised she was pregnant at 14 and what scared her more than the social isolation she went through in class, was when Sierra Leone law banned her from attending school at all because she was expecting.
  Africa has the highest adolescent (…)

• Sierra Leone: LGBT+

  Sierra Leone: Lesbian Rights Activist Brutally Murdered

  6 October 2004, by EDDY FannyAnn, Human Rights Watch

  (New York) - The government of Sierra Leone should bring to justice those responsible for the brutal murder of FannyAnn Eddy, founder of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association and a lesbian rights activist known across Africa.
  Eddy, 30, was found dead on the morning of September 29. (…)