The Executive of the Sierra Leone Athletics Association (SLAA), has over the weekend distributed 25kg bags of rice and cash to 30 national athletes, as a way of supporting them in the crisis occasioned by the Coronavirus. During the handing over of the donated items to the athlete at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Senior Secondary School,...Read More
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has on July 21, 2020, approved US$30 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support agricultural productivity and access to markets for smallholder farmer-agribusiness in Sierra Leone, The Bank said in statement on Tuesday. This additional financing for the Smallholder Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project (SCADeP) will enable the...Read More
The Sierra Leone Correctional Service has in a statement informed the public that on July 21, 2020, it released 153 inmates who were held at various correctional facilities across the country after they had been pardoned by President Julius Maada Bio on April 29, 2020. Initially, 234 inmates were identified for release, but due to the...Read More
The Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD), a national civil society human rights and development organization has on Tuesday July 21, 2020 strongly condemned the recent killings of protesting civilians in the northern headquarter town of Makeni allegedly by the Sierra Leone Police. “We are deeply disappointed by the alleged use of live bullets by...Read More
The presidential candidate for the opposition All Peoples Congress party in the 2018 presidential election, Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara has in a press release on Sunday July 19, 2020, called for calm at Makeni after violent riot which left five dead and several others injured. In the press statement, Dr. Kamara condemned violence in all...Read More
