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
Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday 22 May 2022 –The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr Austin Demby and His Excellency Lansana Gberie, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, have participated in the opening of the Seventy – Fifth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The World...Read More
The Philadelphia Adult League Softball (PALS) has officially announced that it will support the Sierra Leone Cricket Association next month with cricket equipment after receiving donations from several Cricket clubs and organizations. The support is to further strengthen their partnership, as they are also set to undertake a cross-training of one hundred and fifty (150)...Read More
Freetown, Monday, 23rd May 2022 – The Government of Japan, through the COVAX Facility, has boosted the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Sierra Leone with a donation of 100,800 doses of AstraZeneca. This consignment of vaccines, which arrived in the country on 1st of May 2022, will complement the country’s vaccination drive, which started in...Read More
Freetown, Sierra Leone; 20th May 2022 – Education ministers and their permanent secretaries from 13 African countries, have concluded a three-day High-Level meeting on Transformative Leadership for Gender Equality in and through Education, during which recommendations were made to mainstream gender equality in and through education. Through a draft manifesto presented on the last day...Read More
The Emmanuel Pious Richards Foundation (EPRF) on Friday, May 20, 2022, commissioned a multi-purpose hall which comprises an office and a dressing room at Serabu, Bumpeh Ngao Chiefdom. During the commissioning, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Foundation, Emmanuel Pious Richard said that the foundation is formed to complement the government’s effort in the...Read More
Africell has donated dozens of mattresses, food condiments, bundles of sachet water and a sum of Le 10, 800,000 for the welfare of a number of girls rendered homeless by a fire accident which burnt down the Boarding Home of Prosperity Girls High School at Rotifunk, Moyamba District. The Girls had resided the boarding school...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has concluded an investigation of the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL), Professor Kelfala Morana Kallon over remarks he made at a pre-legislation presentation to Parliament on November 22, 2021, in which he said, he “bribed” people who were hoarding the Leone to bring it back into the banking...Read More
