Deforestation continues apace – ignoring the lessons of a deadly landslide tragedy in 2017 By Nick Webster A rampant land grab engulfing Sierra Leone‘s capital city is threatening communities and the future of its wild chimpanzees. Freetown, the largest port city in the country, has a population of about 1.2 million people that is expected to...Read More
By George M.O. Williams The Environment Protection Agency Sierra Leone (EPA-SL) on Friday June 9, concluded plastic waste collection exercise, as part of the commemoration of the World Environment Day. This year’s World Environment Day is themed: “Beat Plastic Pollution”, with a key focus on solutions to reduce plastic pollution in the environment. The Day...Read More
Around 37 to 39 women including one female Paramount chief MP will make up 25 to 26% of the next 149 Members of Parliament (MPs) and of that about 60% of the women are predicted to be from the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) according to SierraPoll survey done by the Institute of Governance Reform...Read More
Blama Town, Kenema District, Thursday 1 June 2023 – Voters and residents of Blama Town in the Small Bo Chiefdom, Kenema District in the eastern region of Sierra Leone, have expressed their unconditional willingness to vote for the Presidential candidate of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party, SLPP, Julius Maada Bio, in the 24 June...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) in collaboration with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), on Friday, June 2, 2023, concluded a two-day media literacy for Youth Advocates and Journalists at the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown. The training was funding by the European Union, The training...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Detective Superintendent Patricia Koroma, attached to the Criminal Investigation Department at Aberdeen Police Station, has on Friday, June 2, 2023 led evidence in the ongoing case involving a teacher who was allegedly murdered by a pupil.Detective Koroma took to the witness stand and recognized the accused person, a 17-year-old pupil, for allegedly...Read More
Ahead of the June 24 election, a rematch of the 2018 vote, familiar issues of identity and economic stagnation are also competing on the ballot. By Jamie Hitchen Freetown, Sierra Leone – On April 23, President Julius Maada Bio and Kandeh Yumkella danced together at a public function in Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, effectively signalling the...Read More
By Xinhua The Chinese medical team on Friday donated a batch of medical supplies to the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital in Freetown, the West African country’s capital, to help boost its medical service. The supplies, which include a variety of medicines and equipment, are essential and urgent in enhancing the hospital’s capacity for diagnoses and...Read More
St. Michaels Field, Low-cost, East End Freetown, Wednesday 31 May 2023 – Youth in Calaba Town, Wellington and Low-cost in the east of Freetown have come out in their numbers to receive Dr Julius Maada Bio as the candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, SLPP, where some of their leadership openly apologised on behalf...Read More
By Nicholas Kristof FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — One of the misimpressions people have about the world is that it’s going to hell. Perhaps that’s because humanity’s great triumph over the last half-century — huge reductions in poverty, disease and early death — goes largely unacknowledged. Just about the worst thing that can happen to anyone is...Read More
