Mohamed Kaifala Sesay, Programme Officer, Sierra Leone Albinism Foundation. Photo by Stephen V. Lansana Q: I ask this of everyone: what myths have you heard in Sierra Leone about albinism? MKS: There are so many myths and misconceptions. In Sierra Leone, people believe that persons living with albinism do not die. This is just mere fabrication because I know of two colleagues who died after they were diagnosed with skin...Read More

The Organising Secretary for Zone 16, Constituency 020 of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) in Kenema city, Wahab Kanneh has sustained two stab wounds and head injuries in an intra-party violence on Saturday March 13, 2021 at the Party’s office in Kenema.   According to trusted sources, Ahead of the lower-level elections within the ruling SLPP, members who went to collect their party ID cards were violently driven...Read More

In an official correspondence to the Sierra Leone Football Association by CAF dated the March 10, 2021, the CAF Emergency Committee has s, “based on the covid-19 pandemic and current travel restrictions”, decided to exceptionally lift the ban on the Siaka Stevens Stadium and allow only the remaining AFCON 2021 Qualifiers (match-day 5 and 6) to be played. The decision went on to state that after the above-mentioned match-days, Sierra...Read More

Aminata Bockarie, a female painter, has on Monday March 8, 2021 displayed her artworks for public viewing at the auditorium of the Ballanta Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Bockarie aims to motivate and inspire women and girls in the Sierra Leone through her work.   She pleaded to the Government of Sierra Leone to empower women and girls in Arts, saying “whatever men can do, I believe women could do...Read More

Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio has recounted his leadership interventions in the areas of women Employment and Empowerment, reproductive health, and Social cohesion. Employment and Empowerment President Bio said during a Virtual Engagement of “Women in Leadership,” in commemoration of International Women’s Day in Freetown on March 11, 2021, that “Our country has its own sets of rigid stereotypes and cultural strictures that have either kept women out...Read More