By Alimatu Jalloh Freetown, Sierra Leone – December 2, 2025: The Freetown City Council (FCC) has engaged 60 market women, including Chairladies from Kennedy Street, Portee, and Low Cost markets, in a community outreach session aimed at strengthening waste management practices and promoting the Council’s new sanitation byelaws. The half‑day engagement, supported by The Carter Center...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh December 2, 2025: A civil servant, Claudia Sam, on Tuesday testified before Magistrate John Manso Fornah at Pademba Road Court No. 2 in Freetown in an ongoing theft case involving three defendants. Led in evidence by Detective Police Constable Thoronka K.K., the witness identified all defendants as individuals she knew from her community....Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Sierra Leone – December 2, 2025: The Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC) has confirmed receipt of NLe 120,000 from the leadership of the All People’s Congress (APC), following a fine imposed on the party for breaching provisions of the Political Parties Act (No. 25) of 2022. According to the Commission, the fine...Read More
An ambitious November campaign to protect a million girls with the HPV vaccine could mark a historic inflection point in Sierra Leone’s journey to elimination of the all-too-common cancer. By Saidu Bah Sierra Leone health workers hold HPV vaccine posters in Freetown ahead of the vaccination of in-school and out-of-school girls between the ages of 11...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Gendema Town, Eastern Sierra Leone, Sunday, November 30, 2025 – President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has officially commissioned the Gendema/Wandor Bridge, a transformational piece of infrastructure that now links the North and South-Eastern Regions of Sierra Leone. Before the bridge, residents, especially women and children, relied on a small hand-operated ferry to cross...Read More
