A recent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report has highlighted sustainable aquaculture development and effective fisheries management as crucial to ensuring future food and nutritional security. Worldwide per capita fish consumption has reached a new record of 20.5 kilograms per year and is poised to increase further in the decade ahead, according to the Food and...Read More
he United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sierra Leone has commenced the distribution of Mama-baby bags to mothers in the maternity wards of selected health facilities. This initiative aims at encouraging pregnant women to use health facilities for safe labor and delivery services as COVID-19 persists. Since Sierra Leone registered its first case of COVID-19 on...Read More
Officials of the Ministry of Works and Public Assets (MWPA) and the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) have on Thursday June 4, 2020, conducted an inspection tour on the Wellington-Masiaka Road, which is currently being constructed by the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG). Minister of Works and Public Assets, Peter Bayuku Konteh, thanked the authorities of...Read More
With the lockdown resulting to restriction of both vehicular and human movements across cities in the country, business operations of the Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) have been greatly hampered, according to the recent National Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs conducted by Sierra Leone SME Forum, African Consulting Group, Business Coalition on...Read More
News that the Public Order (Amendment) Act tabled in parliament for deliberation and approval five months ago had been withdrawn, sent shock waves across Sierra Leone. The rationale behind the withdrawal remained unclear until it was clarified by the Ministry of Information and Communications. It did not come as a surprise that the Ministry lost no...Read More
