Sierra Leone has made some progress in combat Money Laundering (ML), Terrorist Financing (TF), and Proliferation Financing (PF) in accordance with international standards as prescribed in the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) report. The report projected forty recommendations and eleven Immediate Outcomes (IOs) which were to be instituted by member states. Financial Intelligence Unit is responsible for coordinating national effort in the fight against money...Read More

In response to numerous complaints and concerns from parents and the public relating to illegal charges and other forms of extortion, the north-west regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission has on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, engaged heads of secondary and primary schools in Kambia. Addressing school administrators at the Kambia Islamic Secondary School, the Regional Manager Al-Hassan Sesay said the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) values the education sector and the role...Read More

The National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) recorded a total of 20,491 deaths for the entire year of 2020. Based on the available data, this means that only about 22% of all deaths were recorded by the NCRA nationwide, leaving the majority of those who died in 2020 unrecorded in the official databases, and the causes of their deaths are not known. Sierra Leone does not have a compulsory system to...Read More

People find it easy to speak about people with disabilities, or about people who are different than the majority. But has anyone ever wondered how it feels to be born differently and to be subject to discrimination and marginalization? Hamid Mo Kamara is a Senior Counsellor and Psychosocial Therapist and cofounder of the Sierra Leone Association for Persons with Albinism (SLAPWA). He talks about what it feels like to be...Read More

The President of the Association of the National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf, has communicated that the government of Russian has promised 10,000 x 2 Vaccines for African Athletes & Officials that will be participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in July this year. In a special message across Africa, he noted: “Dear colleagues and friends, I have the honor to inform you that the partnership with...Read More