Sierra Leone: All Uphill from Cairo into Africa

A new push to reproductive health services planned at a London conference next week will have to work in Sierra Leone if anywhere. Sierra Leone, a small West African country on the Atlantic bordering Liberia and Guinea has the unhappy distinction of the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. ''That's about 2,100 per 100,000 births,'' Yvonne Harding who works with Marie Stopes International in the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown told IPS.