The Sierra Leonean Krio is among the latest languages to find its way on the Google Translate Service. Krio is an English-based Creole language of Sierra Leone. It is the first language of about 350,000 people and is used as a lingua franca by over 4 million. It is spoken by 87% of Sierra Leone’s population....Read More
The Legal Aid Board with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a two-day training workshop on improving access to justice for victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) cases in Kono and Kailahun Districts. Twenty staff, 10 each from the Legal Aid Board and the Kenema based human rights organization, Humanist Watch...Read More
Despite significant efforts to maintain malaria programming through the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria and several Commonwealth countries are falling behind in the race to halve malaria cases and incidence by 2023. The Commonwealth is currently off track to achieving the commitment to halve malaria by 2023,as agreed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in...Read More
Sierra Leone’s health authorities on Monday said the country has recorded over 2,600 obstetric fistula cases, a type of childbirth injury for women, since 2020. Obstetric fistula is preventable through the provision of quality care at birth and most cases can be repaired surgically, said Francis Moses, a health expert of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health...Read More
Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday 22 May 2022 –The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr Austin Demby and His Excellency Lansana Gberie, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, have participated in the opening of the Seventy – Fifth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health...Read More
