China Kingho, a company that will resume operation at the Tonkolili Iron ore mines, has on July 3, 2020, donated 20,000 N95 protective face masks to the National Covid-19 Response Centre (NaCOVERC). “Shortly after the first case was discovered in Sierra Leone, we immediately ordered the masks from China, and were sent by express. However,...Read More
As part of the framework for ensuring transparency and accountability in the use of public funds in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the north-east Regional Manager of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and her team have embarked on a tour of COVID-19 command centres in the region. In her engagement with three of the four...Read More
For the year of 2020, Europe and Africa have set themselves an ambitious agenda for an ever stronger EU-Africa Partnership. The new President of the European Commission, Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, made her first official visit outside the EU to Addis Ababa underlining the EU’s strong commitment to advance the partnership. Europe and Africa...Read More
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has on July 7, 2020, handed over Information Communication Technology (ICT) equipment and supplies to the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) to support the operations of the Ministry’s Situation Room. The equipment, which has been procured with financial support from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE),...Read More
Julius Maada Bio has on Wednesday July 8, 2020, decorated three newly promoted Brigadier-Generals of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) during a ceremony held at State House. They are Albert Sylvester Bockarie, Amara Idara Bangura and Abdulai Berber Jalloh. In a brief statement, the President congratulated the new Generals, saying that they...Read More
U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Maria E. Brewer, has on Wednesday July 8, 2020, presented supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) needed to protect frontline health care workers responding to COVID-19 to Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) and the Directorate of Health Security and Emergencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the manufacturing,...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Southern Region Office has, on July 6, 2020, cautioned officers of the District Emergency Response Centre (DICOVERC) Bo on the efficient and judicious use of public resources in the management of the COVID 19 pandemic. The engagement took place at the district’s command centre in Bo. Speaking during the engagement, ACC’s...Read More
The High Court in Freetown, presided over by Justice Alusine Sesay on July 2, 2020, convicted Aiah Momodu, customs broker, and Abdul S. Kabba, delivery clerk of Kollenten Shipping Services for fraudulent failure to make payment of custom levy, contrary to Section 48 (1) (d) of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008, the Anti-Corruption...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Friday July 3, 2020, introduced a Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) digital learning platform while also unveiling the pilot distribution of laboratory equipment and uniforms for health workers in Bonthe. He added that his government was working closely with partners to use digital health platforms to accelerate...Read More
The Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) has received seven forty-feet containers containing connection materials worth around Le16 billion, which had been brought in by China Friendship Salone (CFS) & General Services and handed over to the Agency at Degremont Kissy, in Freetown. It could be recalled that during the Third State Opening of Parliament, President...Read More
