The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors has on June 17, 2020, approved a US$100 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) to support the Government of Sierra Leone in promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and building economic resilience. This Development Policy Financing (DPF) supports ongoing reforms to enhance macroeconomic stability, increase productivity in agriculture and fisheries, promote transparency in public procurement, and build an effective asset...Read More
For many around the world, COVID-19 is a first experience of an pandemic. For the people of Sierra Leone, there is spectral familiarity to what is unfolding in the country. With the outbreak of Ebola in May 2014, about 4000 people lost their lives to the deadly virus. The effect was far-reaching. The economy was battered and shattered as if it was a war in a boxing ring. Surely, the...Read More
Orange Sierra Leone has on Tuesday June 16, 2020, collaborated with Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (SLCCIA) and fed 100 quarantined homes within the country with food items such as rice, onions, Maggie and cooking oil. The feeding of the homes was in response to the call of SLCCIA who had requested for institutions in the private sector to help feed people in quarantine homes. While...Read More
Christopher A. A. Jones, the Chief Coordinator for the Portee Coronavirus Response Unit (PoCRU), has on Monday June 15, 2020 called on the Government of Sierra Leone to assist their committee with Veronica buckets, face masks, hand sanitizers and cash in order to speed up their public education campaign on the coronavirus. Jones said that the committee was constituted among residents in the community in response to the outbreak of...Read More
Arthur Onipede Hollist, commonly known as Pede Hollist, a Sierra Leonean Writer and a Professor of English at the University of Tampa, Florida, on Sunday June 14, 2020, encouraged Sierra Leone Creative Writers to focus on strengthening workshops, competitions, artists’ organizations, festivals and collaboration throughout the country in a bid to extend their activities nationwide. Professor Hollist said that showcasing the country’s rich literature is the product of good writing,...Read More
