The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) through its partner, Women in Crisis Movement, with funding from Irish Aid, is providing 1,000 vulnerable girls from various schools in Pujehun, Kambia and Port Loko districts with ‘back to school kits’. The kits which include school uniforms, exercise books, school bags, pens, pencils and geometry sets, will facilitate the girls’ re-entry into formal education. UNFPA, working closely with the Ministry of Basic and...Read More
Orange Money and Ecobank have on Thursday November 5, 2020, launched a new promotion known as Bank to Wallet at Ecobank’s Lightfoot Boston Street office in Freetown. Through the service, Ecobank customers have the opportunity of using Orange Money to cash out and pay cash in from the bank at ease. During the launch, Chief Executive Officer Orange Money Sierra Leone, David Mansaray, expressed excitement over what he described as...Read More
Twenty year old Mabinty Conteh was deported from Baghdad, Iraq to Senegal emaciated and mentally challenged. Her destination back home is not known as there are no other documents apart from her passport and boarding pass to trace her address back home. She was deported with only the clothes she wore. The Sierra Leone Ambassador to Senegal, Alhaji Brima Elvis Koroma was informed on Saturday 31st October, 2020 around mid-day...Read More
Advocacy Movement Network (AMNet) with support from Food and Agriculture Organization, International Institute for Sustainable Development and Oxfam, has Tuesday 3 November 2020 concluded a three-day engagement with Members of Parliament on Gender and Investments in Agriculture and Food Security at Golden Tulip in Freetown. More than 60 Members of Parliaments from five oversight committees including agriculture and forestry, lands and country planning, and mines and mineral resources, attended the...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Russia, His Excellency Mohamed Yongawo, has on Monday, October 26, 2020, addressed the leadership of Sierra Leonean students in Ukraine on issues bordering on welfare and living conditions, at Rublovskoye Chausse, Moscow in Russia. The meeting, held via webinar, was part of the Ambassador’s plan to reach out to Sierra Leoneans within his jurisdiction; as his mandate also covers Ukraine. Ambassador Yongawo commended Madam Ludmila Rusalina,...Read More
