Freetown (AFP) – Iyesatu Turay, who lives in a sprawling slum of corrugated-iron shacks in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, says she doesn’t have enough food to feed her family. Life is a struggle for many in the Kroo Bay slum, where pigs mingle with stray dogs in the debris-strewn alleys of the shantytown, which straddles an open sewer. But war in faraway Ukraine has made life harder still. Fuel prices,...Read More
Rejoice Terefa Kamara aka Terry Kay, a Sierra Leonean model, has on Friday April 15, 2022 won Little Mister and Miss Africa pageant, 2022. The show was held in Pearl of Africa Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. Terry Kay is a musician, actress and model while Treasure is also a model and musician. She contested against: Treasure Lucy Kallao, a Sierra Leonean contestant that took the 1st Runner-up, Ndaloenhle Lethabo Sibanyoni...Read More
There was considerable discrimination against persons with mental disabilities in Sierra Leone, according to the U.S. Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2021. The Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor report which was published recently shows that most persons with mental disabilities received no treatment or public services. “At the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital in Kissy, the only inpatient psychiatric institution that served persons with...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) and its media partners will organise a two-day National Media Viability and Investment Conference in Freetown, in recognition of the important role of public interest media in open, developed, and prosperous societies. The conference, which will be held on April 21 and 22, is supported by BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international development organisation, through PRIMED (Protecting Independent Media for Effective Development),...Read More
Abdul Razak Kanu aka Arkman, a popular local musician, on Saturday, April 16, 2022 fed over 40 vulnerable people in Freetown. According to Arkman, the feeding was aimed at giving back to the society. According to him, during the month of Ramadan one would be rewarded by God for whatever good one does. He said that it doesn’t matter where and to whom one could render help, stating that nothing...Read More
