On January 4, 2021, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi started his five-day visits to five African countries, namely Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and Seychelles. Since 1991, Africa has been the destination of Chinese foreign ministers’ first annual overseas visit for 31 years in a row. This unique...Read More
Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) has in a media conference held on Thursday, January 7, 2021, reiterated that its assertions that 47 laptops computers and a 50KVA generator were missing at the time of audit at the National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC) is true. The three vehicles who were supposed to be brand new...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recovered Le 220 million 000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Twenty Million Leones), as settlement of issues relating to the procurement of 47 Laptops being supplied to the National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre contrary to the contracted specification. “There is a balance of Le 34,000,000.00 (Thirty-Four Million Leones) left to be recovered...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday, January 5, 2020, granted Sierra Leonean citizenship to 22 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA results, most of them with roots to Bo and Tonkolili districts. While handing over the passports at a ceremony held at State House in Freetown, the President...Read More
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has offered scholarships to African students including engineering students from Sierra Leone who aim to pursue attain Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees for the 2021 academic year. The eligibility criteria is that applicants should be researchers or instructors (or potentially expected...Read More
The Sierra Leone Embassy in Cairo Egypt has been relocated to Villa 44A, Street 18, Sarayat in the Diplomatic District of Cairo called AL – Maadi , a district specifically setup to hosts foreign Embassies, Foreign Missions and International Organizations, according to the information attaché at the embassy. Mohamed Bockarie Kallon, Information Attache to Sierra...Read More
Flying Stars Amputee Football team of Sierra Leone has on Wednesday January 6, 2021, played a match against their Liberian counterparts to commemorate the tragic civil war in Sierra Leone. On January 6, 1999, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels entered the capital city of Sierra Leone, Freetown, as part of an offensive to overthrow...Read More
The Sierra Leone Ambassador to Egypt, Morie Fofona has on Monday, January 4, 2020, welcomed two police officers from Sierra Leone who are on a two-year scholarship to pursue a cadet course in Egypt. The Embassy welcomed Police Constable (PC) 19576 Martin Peter Sovula attached at Central Division, and PC 20923 Mohamed Teteh Fofanah attached...Read More
Cole Farm, a community in the west of Freetown, has on Sunday, December 27, 2020 officially launched Pekin Foundation, a charity with the purpose of helping less privileged children within the community. The Foundation also used the launching program to celebrate the first anniversary since its creation in a programme themed: ‘Dream Cam True’. The...Read More
The Academic Staff Association of the University of Sierra Leone (ASA-USL) has in a press release on Monday January 4, 2021, said that they would resume a strike which it put on hold till December 31, 2020. ASA suspended its industrial action for over two weeks due to appeals from several stakeholders including the USL...Read More
