By Desmond Tunde Coker Ahead of Sierra Leone’s crucial AFCON encounter, Coach Amidu KARIM has included MLS striker Kei Ansu Kamara in the Leone Stars squad after coming from retirement a few years ago. The match is a must-win for Leone Stars if they are to qualify for the 2025 AFCON in Morocco. Leone Stars have departed Freetown to face Chad in a crucial Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying...Read More
Rome, 8 November 2024 – As climate change slowly erodes humanity’s ability to feed a growing population, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will urge global leaders at COP29 to agree to an ambitious global finance goal for adaptation as part of the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). IFAD’s plea will highlight the urgent need of hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers to adapt to the new climatic reality....Read More
The ECOWAS court held that Sierra Leone’s loitering laws violated the fundamental rights of the people. The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Thursday in Abuja ordered Sierra Leone to amend, modify, or repeal the country’s laws on loitering in public places. Delivering judgment, Justice Edward Asante, the Judge Rapporteur, held that Sierra Leone’s loitering laws violated the fundamental rights of the people. The court, therefore, ordered Sierra Leone to undertake...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Member of Parliament for the Opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party , Hon Cecelia Mabinty Bangura, who represents Karene District, has called on the government to redirect its energy towards the construction and completion of roads, particularly the Makeni–Kamakwie road which is in a terrible state. The female APC MP made the call in the Well of Parliament on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, during the ongoing...Read More
By George M.O. Williams A Junior Secondary School (JSS 1) pupil from the Collegiate Secondary School, Sinneh Bangura, 12, died on Tuesday after a cement brick, which was placed on the second floor of the Science Laboratory building, fell and struck him on his head while he was heading to his class after he bought lunch, according to an eyewitness account. The scene was spattered with blood which was pouring from...Read More
