About 70% of Sierra Leonean women are employed in agriculture and women provide 75% of the labor along the food value chain, from production, processing to marketing, according to a 2018 Country Gender Assessment report by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and ECOWAS. Agriculture is the most important sector in the economy of Sierra Leone, accounting for almost 50% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the 2018...Read More

Of the 3,298,626 working age Sierra Leoneans in 2018 only 227,856 contributed to the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), which is the national retirement scheme, according to data published on NASSIT’s website. According to the 2018 Sierra Leone Integrated Household Survey (SLIHS), 2,129,972 working age Sierra Leoneans were employed, including those self-employed. This means that about 93% of the people would not have a safety net for their...Read More

The Project Director of Edelgrass, Mark Van Spiel, has told sportsmen that the FIFA funded SLFA-Artificial Turf Project at the Kenema City field will be in full readiness by February, as work is in full progress. Mark Van Spriel said he was happy with the rate of progress on the work that is being done on the ground. He assured SLFA and the people of Kenema that the pitch will...Read More

The Krio Descendants ‘Yunion’ (KDY), with funds from diaspora and it parent body, has concluded its fifth annual free health care treatment at Aberdeen community in Freetown. The KDY has been providing health outreach to residents of local communities for the past four years complimenting government’s effort in providing healthcare services for the nation. On Saturday December 19, 2020 Waltona Cummings, the Outreach Team Leader of the ‘Yunion’, informed this...Read More

The Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA), Fodeba Daboh has on Monday, December 21, 2020, disclosed that in this year-FY2020, the Agency was able to link several local entrepreneurs to Multinationals Enterprises (MNEs), Non-Governmental Organizations, and Donor partners. He made this disclosure when addressing Journalists on the agency’s successes, challenges and plans for 2021 at the Agency’s conference room in Freetown.   Highlighting the agency’s successes, Mr. Daboh...Read More