The Ministry of Social Welfare has submitted Sierra Leone’s first Country Report on the Status of Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Country submitted the Report to the Secretariat of the Committee on the Right of Persons with Disabilities, through the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone in Geneva for necessary actions. This was made public by the Director of Social Welfare, Francis...Read More

Welthungerhilfe Sierra Leone under its Skill Up project has successfully trained and certified 171 youths from the Freetown Peninsular communities in technical and entrepreneurial skills in tourism business.    Emerson Kamara, the Deputy Commissioner of the National Youth Commission, said the Government of Sierra Leone is working with development partners to provide the necessary skills to our youths to enable them contribute towards national development. He explained that middle level...Read More

As it makes accelerated effort to improve water supply, Guma Valley Water Company has on Sunday September 20, 2020 ended a two-day meeting at the Mamba Point Hotel, Aberdeen in Freetown. The Deputy Managing Director of Guma Valley Water Company, Francis Lahai, said the retreat was aimed at reviewing designs and documents under the Freetown Water Supply Master Plan and Priority Investment Studies submitted by engineering consultants; Messrs. IMC Worldwide,...Read More

A newly established Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) has been unveiled at Kailahun District Hospital in Sierra Leone on September 17, 2020. The state-of-the-art unit was set up by the Government of Sierra Leone through the financial contributions of the Government of China with technical support of the United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF). It is designed to provide expert care for sick new-borns (from birth up to 28 days old...Read More

The Minister of Finance Mr. Jacob Jusu Saffa has assured Sierra Leoneans that the government is going to replace all the thirteen ferry-crossing points in the country with modern bridges. The Minister made this disclosure recently while he addressed contractors and other stakeholders in road infrastructure. The local ferries are found at strategic river crossing points in the provinces, where they have been operating without engines for decades now. The...Read More