Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has led people to fear accessing healthcare facilities. As a paediatrician working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kenema District, and as we enter malaria season, I am particularly fearful of what reduced health seeking behavior may mean for children in a country with a high rate of child mortality....Read More

Joseph A.B. Bangura, a creative artist and craftsman with disability, has on Thursday June 18, 2020, told Premier News that involving in Creative Arts could transform the life of any human being. He made this statement while he was being interviewed at his J. Mata Creative Arts Studio which is about a hundred meter away...Read More

After hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Sierra Leone calling for justice for a five-year-old girl who was raped and murdered, Marta Colomer, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “The outpouring of rage following this horrific crime shows that people in Sierra Leona have had enough of impunity...Read More

Salamatu Bangura aka Sale Bangs, a 17-year-old Sierra Leonean musician residing in Guinea Conakry, has on Thursday June 18, 2020 told Premier News that she has recently released a single song titled ‘Saya’ meaning ‘dead’, a tribute song for her mother who died when she was a child. Bangs said that the idea to release...Read More

Honorable Music Empire, a local entertainment label in the Regent community, in colaboration with local musicians: Justice, Sia Hana and Joe Dyce, has on Tuesday June 16,2020 released a single titled ‘No Cry Africa’. Justice, a musician who featured in the song, said that it had been inspired by oppressions Africans are undergoing by the...Read More

The Area Manager of the Guma Valley Water Company in the east of Freetown, Joseph Wandoh has said on Wednesday June 17, 2020,  that human activities, especially the cutting down of trees from areas which are supposed to be forest reserved areas, is a reason for insufficient supply of water in communities in Freetown. Wandoh...Read More

President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 23rd 2020 announced that “effective immediately, the curfew is adjusted to the period 11:00 pm to 6:00am.” In a Media Conference held at Statehouse he admitted to Journalists: “The Inter-District Lockdown continues to be an important suppression measure. It has presented some constraints for Sierra Leoneans. With...Read More

The Project Manager of Boosting Agriculture and Food Security (BAFS) project, Jemillatu Lawally has on Thursday June 19, 2020, formally handed over a revised para veterinary curriculum to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in the Ministry’s conference hall, Youyi building in Freetown. The handing over ceremony which was organized at the ministry was well...Read More