Soccer on the sand of Lumley Beach is a big Sunday pastime in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Pick-up games run up and down the shoreline. (Jason Beaubien/NPR) In cities around the world, there are certain ...

Set a few hundred feet from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on Lumley Beach, Chez Nous is pricey by local standards: $3 for a steak with frites, $1 for a beer. But it's welcome relief for a weary ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Demolition teams wielding axes and machetes this week smashed up popular beach bars, one still bearing a sign saying "Paradise," as part of an improvement scheme to develop ...

Ebola has made it harder for the prostitutes who issue a come-hither "hiss" along Lumley Beach. Customers are hard to find, pay is down, and, like... When a man drives by the strip at Lumley Beach in ...

"Our beach is a God-given thing," exclaims one Sierra Leonean. "We have to make use of it!" That means walking, working out ... and lots of soccer... Sunday On The Beach With Sierra Leonean Soccer ...

In cities around the world, there are certain traditions on Sunday mornings. Strolling in Central Park in New York. Sitting at an outdoor café in Paris. In Freetown, Sierra Leone, it's soccer on the ...

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