National Identification Number (NIN) will become a precondition for Processing Sierra Leone Passport, work permit, resident permit, and other immigration services effective June 1, 2022, the government announced on Monday. The National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA), the Immigration Department of Sierra Leone and the Ministry of labour and Social Security, said in a joint communiqué “that...Read More
Sierra Leone will start African Cup Nations 2023 qualifying campaign against Nigeria on June 9 in Abuja, Nigeria, as coach John Keister names his team ahead of the doubleheader. The Leone will open camp in the neighbouring Guinean before travelling to Nigeria. Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja will host Nigeria’s 2023 AFCON opening qualifier against Sierra...Read More
Orange Sierra Leone, the country’s leading telecoms operator has handed over a modern preschool to Lokomasama community in Port Loko District on behalf of government. The new school named the ‘Kombra Nursery School’ is the fourth to be handed over to government, and plans for additional facilities to the school are underway. The fifth pre-school is...Read More
A man in Sierra Leone’s Capital, Freetown has been in hiding since 2021 for fear of being killed after locals learned that he was bisexual. Amadu Sankoh has been bisexual since he was in high school, but he kept it secret because being part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Sierra Leone is associated with risk, a closed relative of Sankoh told this medium on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. He said that Sankoh went into hiding for fear of persecution. He...Read More
Soaring food prices driven by the war in Ukraine and pandemic-fuelled budget cuts set to drive up both need for, and cost of life-saving therapeutic food treatment, the latter by up to 16 percent The number of children with severe wasting was rising even before war in Ukraine threatened to plunge the world deeper into a...Read More
