The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has on Tuesday August 25, 2020, commenced a two-day consultation with stakeholders on the process of Universal Periodic Review (UPR), in a bid to elicit information, views and concerns from stakeholders for the production of a Shadow Report on the third Cycle Universal Review session to be...Read More

The Ministry of Defense (MOD), has in a press release issued on Tuesday June 25, 2020, said that a social media post purporting that 10 top military officers resigned by tendering letters of resignation to H.E President Bio is untrue. John Alfred SahrGbondo,the Group Captain and Director Defense Public Relations, in the release acknowledge that,...Read More

Freetown, 24th August 2020 – Catholic Relief Services has just concluded its quarterly stakeholders’ engagement as part of its McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition “All Pikin for Learn” project in Sierra Leone. The Food for Education and Child Nutrition project seeks to improve literacy levels and health and dietary practices of 69,731...Read More

Intelligence estimate indicates that individuals, known and unknown, have been engaging in activities including making pronouncements that are tantamount to disrupting the peace and stability of Sierra Leone, the security sector in Sierra Leone said in a statement on Monday. National Security Coordinator, Brig. Gen. (Rtd.) J.A.O. Jah-Tucker said in a statement that “the Security...Read More

The third prosecution witness, Zainab Isatu Kamara has on Monday August 24, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road in Freetown, in a matter involving Dr. Sylvia O. Blyden, the proprietress of Awareness Times Newspaper, and Hussein Mukson Sesay who are being preliminary investigated on defamatory libel and other related...Read More

A local musician in the east of Freetown, Zainab Morlai Sesay aka Z. ZeeZee,has said on Friday that, upcoming female musicians are being neglected and frustrated by stakeholders in the music industry in Sierra Leone. Zee said that most upcoming female musicians have encountered and are still confronting lots of challenges in the Sierra Leone...Read More

The coronavirus pandemic has left female football in a precarious position. Although the suspension of sporting activities in Sierra Leone   applied equally to both men’s and women’s competitions, there will be deeper and more far-reaching consequences for women’s football. Sierra Leonean female players have shared some insights into how they are keeping their dream of...Read More

Saidu Kabia, deputy Harbor Master at the Tambacular Wharf at Aberdeen in the west of Freetown,has said on Friday August22, 2020 thatgovernment regulationssometimes resulting in fishermen catching little or no fish, thus causing some to go out of business and becomejobless. Kabia said thatrecently, the government hasoutlawed the use of monofilament fishing nets which they...Read More

Aureol Insurance Company Limited has on Friday August 21, 2020 held a certification ceremonyat its Siaka Stevens Street office in Freetown in which it awarded prizes to pupils who won in an essay competition it organized.  The award ceremony was well attended by the awardees, parents and staff of the Company, among others. The Aureol...Read More

With support from the Malaria Control Program of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation,Prison Watch Sierra Leone on Monday August 24th 2020 donated hundreds insecticide treated bed nets to inmates of the Female Correctional Facility in Freetown New England at the former Special Court facility. Amidst singing and dancing at the Freetown female correctional centre,...Read More