Eight young players have been killed and over a dozen wounded on Sunday when a minivan collided with a truck loaded with timber along Makoth and Makarie highway, sources at the Makeni Regional Hospital said Monday.  Sources at the hospital said some of the injured have been referred to the Emergency Surgical Centre in Freetown. The North-East Region Football Association (NERFA) has also confirmed the death of the players. The...Read More

Freetown, Sierra Leone – The University of Georgia (UGA), the U.S. Department of State, and World Hope International will co-host a virtual Sierra Leone Child Anti-Trafficking program launch event on Tuesday, March 2. This free virtual launch event will detail the results of groundbreaking child trafficking research and a new, impactful program for child trafficking survivors in Sierra Leone. The forum is presented by the African Programming and Research Initiative...Read More

The Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, His Lordship Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has disclosed that Sierra Leone is now an attractive place for doing business despite the challenges posed by the dreadful Coronavirus pandemic. The Hon. Chief Justice was speaking at a workshop which was organized by the Sierra Leone Bar Association and the Center for International Law and Policy in Africa on February 25, 2021, on the ‘New York...Read More

The Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources in collaboration with the National Minerals Agency (NMA), has on Thursday, February 25, 2021, engaged the media practitioners, representatives of Civil Society Organisations on the status of the mineral sector in Sierra Leone, and case between the government of Sierra Leone and SL Mining which is pending at the International tribunal. The Director General of NMA, Mr. Julius Dainel Mattai said that over...Read More

Minister of Lands and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie, has said that his first priority is to undertake reforms in the ministry by creating separate Directorates of Housing and Planning, and also digitize all their operations. He made the disclosure at the regular government press in the conference room of the Ministry of Information and Communications on Thursday February 25, 2021. Dr. Senesie explained that a lot of focus had...Read More