By Xinhua The Chinese medical team on Friday donated a batch of medical supplies to the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital in Freetown, the West African country’s capital, to help boost its medical service. The supplies, which include a variety of medicines and equipment, are essential and urgent in enhancing the hospital’s capacity for diagnoses and...Read More
St. Michaels Field, Low-cost, East End Freetown, Wednesday 31 May 2023 – Youth in Calaba Town, Wellington and Low-cost in the east of Freetown have come out in their numbers to receive Dr Julius Maada Bio as the candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, SLPP, where some of their leadership openly apologised on behalf...Read More
By Nicholas Kristof FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — One of the misimpressions people have about the world is that it’s going to hell. Perhaps that’s because humanity’s great triumph over the last half-century — huge reductions in poverty, disease and early death — goes largely unacknowledged. Just about the worst thing that can happen to anyone is...Read More
The Sierra Leone Men’s T20 Cricket Premier League is screeching to a tense halt after 42 days of 20 competitive clashes among seven zealous clubs. The second week of June will feature the Men’s grand finale as highly rated, all match winner Mid-West face boisterous newcomer Special Line for an epic show. The Prince of...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Rosaline Ya-Alimany Bangura, the wife of Kabba Santigie Bangura, a former lecturer at Fourah Bay College whose lifeless-body was found in the custody of one Ibrahim Kalokoh, a herbalist, after being missing for 9 days, has testified before Magistrate Mark Ngegba that she called her husband on Monday the 6th of March...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) with support from the European Union through International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) on Monday June 5,2023, launched its media manifesto ahead of the June 24 elections in Sierra Leone. Titled: ‘The Media We Want’, the manifesto is a catalogue...Read More
By Ibrahim S.Bangura Magistrate Wilbri H.M. John, together with her siblings and her mother, has recently organized a Spelling competition at the Standard Nursery and Preparatory School Complex in the West of Freetown. The aim of organizing the competition was to motivate children to be educated. Six schools, including Standard Nursery and Preparatory School, participated...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice of the Republic of Sierra Leone, His Lordship Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has assured the Carter Center Observation Mission to Sierra Leone that the Judiciary is prepared to expeditiously handle election offences and petitions when they come up during the electoral cycle. “We’re going to handle these elections with the promptness...Read More
Recently, China Railway No.10 Engineering Group Africa Company and Leone Rock Metals Group signed the EPC general contract for the construction of the second phase of the 12 million mt/year beneficiation plant of the Tonkolili iron ore mine in Sierra Leone and the second phase of the iron ore mining project contract, with a total...Read More
By Abu Bakarr Kargbo The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has collaborated with the government of Sierra Leone and other organizations like Haikal Foundation and Aberdeen Women’s Centre to commemorate the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula at the Bo Government Hospital on Tuesday 23rd May 2023. This year’s theme was centered on “20 years of...Read More
