Written by Nicolas Messner In 2024, the IJF Academy stopped in Sierra Leone for a very important and useful practical session. This offered Slavisa Bradic, one of the experts of the Academy to conduct specific activities with women and get feedback about their situation and how judo can impact their lives positively. “We learned first hand what it is like to be a woman practising judo in a West African...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Artisanal Fishermen Consortium will implement a Close Season as one of its measures to protect the country’s fish stock from depletion, the Ministry of Fisheries said in a statement on Monday. The Close Season is slated for the 1st to 28th of February 2025. A fishing close season, also known as a biological rest...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Freetown, Sierra Leone (January 6, 2025) – In a dramatic turn of events, Emerson Bockarie Senesie, an alleged fraudster, made his second appearance before Magistrate Wilbrie John at Pademba Road Court No.7. Senesie and has been remanded for allegedly obtaining fifty thousand United States dollars under false pretenses, claiming it was for transporting gold. The accused faces two serious charges: conspiracy to defraud and obtaining money by...Read More
Story by Amir Qureshi Agra: A letter by the Agra district administration, one of the 75 districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, acting on the complaint of a man who alleged his 19-year-old son was being held ‘captive’ in the west African country of Sierra Leone, has been forwarded to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), sources in the Uttar Pradesh Department of Home and Confidential told ThePrint. The...Read More
According to Alexey Overchuk, it is important to create comfortable conditions for the activation of business contacts MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Russian embassies in Niger, Sierra Leone and South Sudan will become “windows to Russia” for the citizens of these countries interested to learn about life in Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk said in a commentary. “We are fostering direct interaction between people in our countries on which long-term...Read More
