The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry Katy Fallon in Kono In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital, Koidu. Behind a steel fence, the rooms of a new maternity centre, the Maternal...Read More

By Sallieu S. Kanu Since 2015, the service provider for the Sierra Leone Passport, Netpage, has been complying with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) new book design that was launched, and at the same time switched to e-passport from machine readable passport (MRP) book re-signed in 2022. Also, the company instituted an electronic upgrade for faster processing of biometric data; currently using e-passport for ordinary diplomatic and service books....Read More

By Sallieu S. Kanu State House, Freetown, Thursday 31 August 2023 – Sierra Leone’s  President Dr Julius Maada Bio has reiterated his commitment to the Constitutional Review Process. His comment came  at a meeting with the Executive of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on post-repeal engagements and the All Political Parties’ Association (APPA) to discussion sustained political inclusion. Five years after the report on the last review process...Read More

By Sallieu S. Kanu United States will pursue visa restrictions for persons believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Sierra Leone, including through the manipulation or rigging of the electoral process; intimidation of voters, election observers, or civil society organizations through threats or acts of physical violence; or the abuse or violation of related human rights in Sierra Leone, US Secretary of State said in a...Read More

The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA), has awarded the contract to Consulting Engineers Group (CEG) for the Design Review and Construction Supervision for the upgrading of the Kailahun-Buedu Road. The contract between SLRA and CEG was signed by the Director General, Ing. Amara Jambai Kanneh and Director Bernard Obika on Thursday, August 31, 2023, at the campsite of the China Henan International Corporation Co....Read More