Sea cucumbers are a costly delicacy, popular in Asia. But those diving for them in Banana Islands see few rewards.
![Olomode Jones with a sea cucumber [Olivia Acland/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Olomode-Jones-with-a-sea-cucumber-1752584361-1-1753169911.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Sea cucumbers are a costly delicacy, popular in Asia. But those diving for them in Banana Islands see few rewards.
![Olomode Jones with a sea cucumber [Olivia Acland/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Olomode-Jones-with-a-sea-cucumber-1752584361-1-1753169911.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Sierra Leone’s poorest communities have long been prey to human traffickers. Climate change is making things worse.

In the DRC, where some of the most valuable minerals are mined, young women sell their bodies to put food on the table.
![A makeshift nightclub in Luhihi where miners spend time after they have finished work for the day [Olivia Acland/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Inside-nightclub-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Inaccessible health services and spiritual beliefs drive those in need to the shrines of 45,000 traditional healers.

After Sierra Leone’s deadly mudslides, the race is on to retrieve the body parts of the victims before disease sets in.

In a country that demonises mental disabilities, a mother recalls the journey of her community’s acceptance and remorse.

People affected by the Ebola virus are showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder a year after epidemic defeated.
