By Ibrahim S. Bangura Land ownership within the Western Area for construction of houses will take vegetable farmers out of job. Abu Bakarr Koroma Dumbuya, chairman of vegetable growers in Leicester, a village in the mountains overlooking Freetown, has said that recently land ownership within the community has limited the volume of their produce and...Read More
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry Katy Fallon in Kono In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital,...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Since 2015, the service provider for the Sierra Leone Passport, Netpage, has been complying with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) new book design that was launched, and at the same time switched to e-passport from machine readable passport (MRP) book re-signed in 2022. Also, the company instituted an electronic upgrade for...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu State House, Freetown, Thursday 31 August 2023 – Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio has reiterated his commitment to the Constitutional Review Process. His comment came at a meeting with the Executive of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on post-repeal engagements and the All Political Parties’ Association (APPA) to...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu United States will pursue visa restrictions for persons believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Sierra Leone, including through the manipulation or rigging of the electoral process; intimidation of voters, election observers, or civil society organizations through threats or acts of physical violence; or the abuse or violation...Read More
