The three Kenyan Tourism Wildlife Experts, Michael Wanjua, Bernard Ngoro and Maurine Musimbi have concluded their nationwide assessment and exploration of Sierra Leone’s national parks and tourism resources at Mamunta, Mayosso in Tonkolili district. The Kenyan experts together with officials from the Tourism Ministry, National Tourist Board, National Protected Area Authority and Conservation Society started...Read More

The wife of the late Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Joseph Pizarro Christian Charley (popularly known as AIG Chris Charley) has sued the Minister of Health and Sanitation, the Medical Superintendent (Officer In Charge) of 34 Military Hospital, and the Attorney General & Minister of Justice on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone at the High Court of Sierra...Read More

On February,22, 2022, Senior Human Rights advocates, including Abdul M. Fatoma,Chief Executive of the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), made a formal request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Prison officials to visit Mr. Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, an opposition politician, at one of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service’s facilities in Freetown....Read More

One girl narrates to DW how she proved her mother and her teachers wrong by finishing school and starting college despite being a teenage mother. When MariatuAjiatuKalokoh got pregnant at 17, her parents were furious. “My mum wanted to drive me out of the house,” Mariatu, who lived at the time in Lumley Beach, on...Read More

More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing – WHO, UNICEF  New report details exploitative practices employed by $55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition, violating international commitments  GENEVA/NEW YORK, 22 February 2022 – More than half of parents and pregnant women (51 percent) surveyed for a new WHO/UNICEF...Read More

Redenomination will commence soon, following a nationwide sensitization of the public, the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone said recently. Professor Kelfala M. Kallon said in a conference in Bo City that, the Bank will soon commence a nationwide sensitization drive, titled “Operation New Money, Same Value”, across the length and breadth of this...Read More

Judiciary of Sierra Leone Communications, Main Law Courts Building, Freetown, 21st February 2022:High Court Judge, Hon. Justice Adrian Fisher has dismissed the Application by the defence team of Dr. Samura Kamara, the 2018 Presidential Candidate of the APC Party, seeking to quash the indictment upon which Dr. Samura and 5 others are standing trial at...Read More

Supportive of Sierra Leone’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council on the non-permanent category, the Charge’ d’affaires of the Embassy of Portugal in Dakar, Joao Ciotta Neves on Tuesday, during his courtesy visit on the Sierra Leone Ambassador to Senegal, Alhaji Brima Elvis Koroma, called for a reciprocal support from Sierra...Read More

A cross section of research participants and officials from WHO and the Ministry of Health & Sanitation Twelve national research participants on February 18, 2022completed the third module of the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) to help in combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Sierra Leone. The participants consisting of medical doctors, nurses...Read More

On Tuesday 15th February 2022, the Environment Protection Agency of Sierra Leone launched the Initial National Adaptation Plan (INAP) in the presence of key government officials and local community representatives at the Sierra Bay Hotel in Freetown.  The objectives of the NAP process in Sierra Leone are to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate...Read More