Director, POED addressing benefeciaries at the meeting in Masingbi By: Alex A. Bah In a community sensitization Town Hall meeting held at the Ahmadiyya Secondary School, in Masingbi Town, Tonkolili District, North East Sierra Leone, on Tuesday 15th December, 2021, residents of the Konike-Sanda Chiefdom commended the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for its role in the implementation of the Social Safety Net (SSN)program which has injected integrity and accountability in the...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu United Nations Secretary-General AntónioGuterres, with the host Government’s approval, has appointed Edward Kallon, a Sierra Leonean, as United Nation Resident Coordinator in Zimbabwe. He will also serve as Humanitarian Coordinator, and has already taken up his post on January 6. 2022. Mr. Kallon has devoted more than 30 years of his career to publicservice, working — both at the United Nations and externally — in complex...Read More
Thelia Production in collaboration with the Ministries of Trade and Finance, and the Bank of Sierra Leone has on Thursday March 18th, 2021 ended a one day digital economy conference in exploring and enhancing alternative payment system in Sierra Leone at Sierra Light House Aberdeen Freetown. The conference, which attracted representatives of civil society organisations, banks and the media, was aimed at changing the narrative of using paper or liquid...Read More
Dry Eye Crew, a renowned Music Crew in Sierra Leone, has on Saturday March 20, 2021 released a musical album titled Krio Hip Hop Reloaded. Many Sierra Leonean hip hop stars, old and new like: Pupa Baja, Empress P, A Klass, YOK 7, Sly Dee, Dell, Kracktwist and Samza, MDG. Speedo, Daddy Saj, Mr. One, Dovey Dovey and Funky Fred were featured. According to Pupa Baja, the reloaded Krio Hip...Read More
A group of young commercial sex workers around Texaco and Liberia Bar in the east of Freetown, have on Thursday March 11, 2021 called on the Government and other humanitarian organizations to provide them with the platform where they could receive vocational education and help them out of prostitution. Mariatu Kamara, 17, said that she took to the streets because her aunt pressured her after she lost both parents. She...Read More
