February 17, 2021, Makeni City – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) has supported the Government of Sierra Leone to establish a One Health governance structure for Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and Antimicrobial use (AMU) surveillance in the human and animal health sectors. AMR ...Read More
The Sierra Embassy in Egypt has facilitated the repatriation of a two-year-old boy in Sierra Leone after the death of a Sierra Leonean mother Miss Aminata Doumbouya in Cairo on November 16, 2020. According to the Information Attaché, Mohamed B. Kallon, since the death of the mother, the two-year-old toddler has been living with his...Read More
The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, ratified loan agreements to improve the education sector through the establishment of the University of Science and Technology in Koidu Town, Kono District. The agreement which was ratified by Parliament is: 1. Loan Agreement Between the ECOWAS Bank For Investment and Development (EBID) and...Read More
Just a few months after the longest-serving Chairman of the Central One Football Association passes on, a new executive has been elected to carry on the day to day affairs of the association which is why on Tuesday they pay a courtesy call on the Minister of Sports at the Bishop House Office in Freetown....Read More
Mark Alie Saccoh popularly known as Markafish, a Sierra Leonean American based afro-pop singer, has recently released a new song titled ‘Put it in’ featuring Mello Seven and I Tribe who are Sierra Leone music stars also. The song was produced by a Nigerian music producer Skoolbeats and mixed and mastered by Lamzo Jay, a Sierra Leonean...Read More
Health facilities are constrained to access to pipe borne water and electricity, medical supplies and drugs, immunization vaccine, nutritional services for under-five children and accommodation, according to a report by Health Alert Sierra Leone. This disclosure was made by the organisation during an accountability forum on the health sector in Bombali and Tonkolili districts recently....Read More
Fourah Bay College (FBC), one of the three constituent colleges of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), has on February 18, 2021 celebrated its 194th year of academic excellence in a modest ceremony held at the Ajayi Crowther Amphitheater, FBC Campus with the theme: “FBC Repositioning itself for Transformation in the 21st Century Sierra Leone”....Read More
Sierra Leone Ambassador to Egypt, Morie Fofana has been honored in Egypt to officially open the first-ever export and trade fair organized by Hnsana W. Nsadar in Cairo during an official ceremony held on Thursday, February 11, 2021. The ceremony was themed: “we will produce and export”. The aim of the Trade Fair is to...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has on Saturday, February 20, 2021, visited a youth skills training programme targeting about 1,540 young people learning road construction at the Bandajuma-Liberia border road project funded by the European Union (EU). He thanked partners for this possible, among them, the EU Ambassador, Tom Vens; the head of...Read More
President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has said on Friday, February 19, 2021, that in 18 months his government will build and furnish a Junior and Senior Secondary School of Excellence exclusively for girls. He made the disclosure during a visit in Pujehun district, southern Sierra Leone. “It will cater for 300 pupils…It will be a...Read More
