The Sierra Leonean Krio is among the latest languages to find its way on the Google Translate Service. Krio is an English-based Creole language of Sierra Leone. It is the first language of about 350,000 people and is used as a lingua franca by over 4 million. It is spoken by 87% of Sierra Leone’s...Read More

The Legal Aid Board with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a two-day training workshop on improving access to justice for victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) cases in Kono and Kailahun Districts. Twenty staff, 10 each from the Legal Aid Board and the Kenema based human rights organization, Humanist...Read More

Despite significant efforts to maintain malaria programming through the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria and several Commonwealth countries are falling behind in the race to halve malaria cases and incidence by 2023. The Commonwealth is currently off track to achieving the commitment to halve malaria by 2023,as agreed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London...Read More

Sierra Leone’s health authorities on Monday said the country has recorded over 2,600 obstetric fistula cases, a type of childbirth injury for women, since 2020. Obstetric fistula is preventable through the provision of quality care at birth and most cases can be repaired surgically, said Francis Moses, a health expert of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of...Read More