Sierra Leone senior male national football team, Leone Stars, is currently in Guinea on a camping ahead of the 2023 African Cup of Nations doubleheaders in Abuja and Guinea next month. Sierra Leone, in Group A, will kick off African Cup Nations 2023 qualifying campaign on June 9, 2022 away in Nigeria. Leone Stars will...Read More
With support from United National Development Programme (UNDP) and Irish Aid, Human Right Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has organised third reginal advocacy consultation with stakeholders on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations focusing on the Constitutional Review Process (CRP) and the enactment of the Human Rights Defender’s Bill. The meeting was to create public...Read More
A bike rider Ibrahim Mohamed Kamara,29, was committed to the high court for further trial by Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Pademba Road Court No 1 for the alleged murder of Alpha Sankoh. The accused is before the court on one count charge of murder contrary to law. According to the police, the accused on Saturday,...Read More
The Audit Service Sierra Leone on Saturday, May 28, 2022, held public education on its operations with members of the Regent Street and Wellington PMB Ataya bases and Wash Car Youths in Freetown. The engagement is part of the public education drive by the ASSL to create awareness on the activities of the institution. The...Read More
The population of Sierra Leone is estimated at 7,541,641, constituting 3,716,263 male and 3,825,378 female, according to the provisional data of the 2021 Mid-Term Housing and Population Census conducted by Statistic Sierra Leone. The provisional figures show that there are 109,121 more women in the country than men with a ratio of 0.97. The Statistician...Read More
The Guma Valley Water Company and its partners on Friday, May 27, 2022 successfully completed the replacements of the leaking Scour and Gate Valves at the Guma Dam Tunnel at Mile 13. The replacement of the valves which were installed in the mid-1960s, is one of the Works packages under the Freetown Water Supply Rehabilitation...Read More
Sierra Leone’s former President, Ernest Bai Koroma, has on Saturday endorsed his nation’s bid for a seat in the Non-Permanent Category of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). This very important endorsement follows a courtesy call by the country’s vice President, Honourable Dr Juldeh Jalloh, on the immediate past president at his residence in Makeni,...Read More
A personnel of the Joint Presidential Guard Force, Staff Sergeant Barrie a was stabbed to death at Davies Drive, Hill Station in Freetown on May 17, 2022, and his killer is helping the police with the investigation, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Monday. The statement came following rumour on social media...Read More
Xejet Limited and the Government of Sierra Leone have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ,MoU, to operate Regional and International Flights from Lungi International Airport, Freetown. According to Mr. Emmanuel Iza who signed on behalf of Xejet, “the Government of Sierra Leone and Xejet have been in discussions and have now agreed that the company may...Read More
According to a just released International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey Report 2021 Sierra Leone has improved slightly on public access to budget information. The report was launched on Tuesday 31st May by the Budget Advocacy Network at the CCSL Hall, Kingharman Road in Freetown. Giving a synopsis of the report, the National Coordinator, Budget...Read More
