The National Covid-19 Response Centre (NACOVERC) has on Wednesday published enhanced COVID-19 regulations. According to the regulations, all secret society activities and worship in all churches and mosques remain banned until further notice. “Funeral processions will continue to be restricted to family members but not to exceed 35 people. Social distancing and use of face...Read More
Black Tuesday Movement, a group advocating for Justice for victims of Sexual crimes, has on Monday June 22, 2020 urged the Government and donor community in Sierra Leone to establish a forensic lab and testing facility in the country to effectively prosecute perpetrators of sexual offences and prevent the punishment of those who could be...Read More
The University of Sierra Leone with support from Ing. Amara Tunkara on Thursday June 18, 2020, unveiled two different locally made ventilators and alcohol-based hand sanitizer developed by students of its three constituent colleges. Students from Fourah Bay College (FBC), College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) and Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), developed...Read More
President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 16, 2020, met with Resident Ministers, who doubled as COVID-19 Regional Coordinators, at State House and presented them with vehicles to ease their work in the fight against the Coronavirus. Chief Minister, Professor David Francis, who chaired the event, said that the move was part of the...Read More
Christopher A. A. Jones, the Chief Coordinator for the Portee Coronavirus Response Unit (PoCRU), has on Monday June 15, 2020 called on the Government of Sierra Leone to assist their committee with Veronica buckets, face masks, hand sanitizers and cash in order to speed up their public education campaign on the coronavirus. Jones said that...Read More
Arthur Onipede Hollist, commonly known as Pede Hollist, a Sierra Leonean Writer and a Professor of English at the University of Tampa, Florida, on Sunday June 14, 2020, encouraged Sierra Leone Creative Writers to focus on strengthening workshops, competitions, artists’ organizations, festivals and collaboration throughout the country in a bid to extend their activities nationwide....Read More
Your Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa,Your Excellency President Macky Sall,Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government,Your Excellency Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission,Your Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations,Your Excellency Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, At such a critical moment in the global fight against COVID-19, we...Read More
Disruption due to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone could lead to 23,000 extra teenage pregnancies by the end of the year, according to new analysis from Save the Children. To combat this, the organisation has launched an innovative, interactive game application for boys and girls which provides them with reliable information on sexual health as well...Read More
The Freetown Male Correctional Centre has recorded nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19, to bring the cumulative positive infections at the prison to 28, according to trusted sources at the facility housing the infected inmates. Fourteen inmates have so far recovered, with no death. The nine inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 were among the...Read More
The Deputy Minister of Social Welfare and Psycho-social PillarLeader for the Emergency Response Centre (EOC), Mohamed Haji Kella, has remarked that Psycho-social counseling especially for patients plays a crucial role in combating the deadly Coronavirus in the Sierra Leone. He made this statement while he described the aim and objectives of the Psycho-social pillar established...Read More
