The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor David John Francis and the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E Hu Zhangliang on February 11, 2022 signed Joint Economic and technical Cooperation agreement between China and Sierra Leone in Freetown. Professor Francis said the agreement process was initiated at the China-African Forum in Dakar, Senegal. He said the signing of the Economic and Technical Cooperation agreement with China symbolizes the...Read More
The Deputy Finance Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Mr Sheku Fantamadi Bangura has on Thursday, February 17, 2022 introduced the Bill entitled “The National Payment System Act, 2021”, in the chamber of Parliament. The bill seeks to regulate the national payment system and to provide other related matters. Presenting the Bill, the deputy minister said the bill aims at repealing and replacing the National Payment System Act 2009, adding...Read More
A Sierre Leone rebel on trial in Finland for war crimes in Liberia’s bloody conflict has been released by the court ahead of its verdict where he risks life in prison, the court said Wednesday. Gibril Massaquoi, 51, has been on trial at Pirkanmaa district court for rape, ritual murder and recruiting child soldiers during the later years of Liberia’s second civil war, which ended in 2003. The verdict is...Read More
The National HIV/AIDS Secretariat in collaboration with other development partners celebrated the International Condom Day with the theme: “Always in fashion” at the Ahmed Tejah Kabbah Hall, Eastern Technical University, Kenema. Every year February 13 is commemorated International Condom Day which seeks to remind the public that condoms prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unwanted pregnancy. It’s also a day to promote the use of condoms to provide protection from...Read More
Ambassador Muller addressing the media The European Union has committed €245 million to support programmes in Sierra Leone for the period 2021 to 2024. This was disclosed by the Head of Delegation of the European Union in Sierra Leone, Ambassador Manuel Alexander Muller, to the media during a press lunch in Freetown on Wednesday February 16, 2022. This amount is reflected in the recently adopted Multi-Annual Indicative Programme (MIP) document...Read More
