Freetown, Dec 18, 2025 (AFP) - Cassava sticks and pain: Stalled S.Leone ...

Lacking support and feeling terrified, Mary turned to one of Sierra Leone's traditional healers when she found out she was pregnant as a teenager, an ordeal that left her with permanent pain and emotional scars. Leaning against a veranda railing in an overcrowded slum on the outskirts of Freetown, she clasped her hands tightly as if holding herself together as she told AFP of the traumatic ...
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