By Sallieu S. Kanu The Country Director of the Amazonian Initiative Movement (AIM-SL) Sierra Leone, Madam Rugiatu Neneh Turay has served as the keynote speaker on a conference on Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)’. The conference with the theme, ‘Catalyzing and globalizing actions to end FGM’ was held in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference brought together ...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker Sierra Leone senior male football team Leone Stars have been drawn alongside Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, and Djibouti in the FIFA World Cup 2026 preliminary qualifies in Group A. During the draw, the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) divided the nine groups of six countries each based on their current...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The United States continues to be concerned about irregularities in the election results announced by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL), the U.S. Department of State spokesperson said in a statement on Friday. Matthew Miller said, “Independent parallel vote tabulations and analyses by accredited national and international observation missions raise...Read More
New York City-based mining company, Tresor Gold, is currently raising capital to scale its gold projects in Sierra Leone for production within 18 months, while also pursuing strategic acquisitions of critical metal projects in West Africa. The company is leveraging geotechnical data, predictive analytics and local expertise to identify areas of favourable mineralisation, and through its intelligent research of artisanal activity and soil sampling,...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, presided by the Honourable Chief Justice, His Lordship Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has on Thursday dismissed the recusal application made by Charles Francis Margai, Solicitor and Counsel for Patrick John and the PMDC (1st and 2nd Plaintiffs) against the Hon. Chief Justice and Hon. Justice Ansumana...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Standard Chartered Bank and Access Bank Plc (Access) have entered into agreements for the sale of Standard Chartered’s shareholding in its subsidiaries in Angola, Cameroon, The Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and its Consumer, Private & Business Banking business in Tanzania. Each transaction remains subject to the approval of the respective local...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The Legal Aid Board has secured the discharge of eighteen accused persons from separate High Court sittings across the country from 5th June to 12th July 2023. Four of the accused persons were discharged by Justice Sulaiman Bah in Freetown; three by Justice Cosmotina Jarrett in Freetown; five by Justice A.R Mansaray...Read More
By John Jeffay Newfield Resources has secured $50 million in provisional finance to bring its Tongo Diamond Mine in Sierra Leone to commercial production. The Australian miner says the deposit has an initial eight-year life with peak annual diamond production of 260,000 carats forecast in Year 5. Newfield said yesterday (10 July) that its subsidiary...Read More
A rush of women candidates supported by new electoral laws face continuous challenges in their bid to hold office Sally Hayden in Freetown Marion Kamara stepped out of the black gates of her compound, high on a hill in the Devil Hole area southwest of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. With friends and supporters behind her, she...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has on Tuesday, July 11, 2023 officially signs a contract with Edel Grass for the construction of four new artificial turf pitches at the Approved School, SLFA Academy, Port Loko Town Field, and Coronation Field in Bo, and also, to uplift the standard of Kono...Read More
