African Development Bank Group unveils $10 billion Response Facility to curb COVID-19
Institution’s primary channel for its efforts to address the crisis. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, April 8, 2020 — The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) on Wednesday announced the creation of the COVID-19 Response Facility to assist regional member countries in fighting the pandemic. The Facility is the latest measure taken by the Bank to respond to […]
Sierra Leone Lifts Ban On Pregnant Girls Attending School
enforced with the belief that the girls would encourage teenage pregnancySierra Leone on Monday overturned a ban on pregnant girls attending school in a victory for human rights activists who had fought against it for five years. The West African country introduced the ban in 2015 after a rise in rape, abuse and poverty during […]
Coronavirus – hundreds of visitors stranded in Sierra Leone as Lungi airport is shutdown
Shutting down Places that were once teaming with the hustle and bustle of daily life have become ghost-towns with massive restrictions put on our lives – from lockdowns and school closures to travel restrictions and bans on mass gatherings. It is an unparalleled global response to a disease. But when will it end and when […]
Sierra Leone counts losses on illicit timber trade
Illicit Timber Trade in Sierra Leone not only has adverse effects on the environment, but it is also reportedly causing an economic burden on the government and people of the West African nation, according to Abdul Karim Dumbuya, Communications Officer of the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (CSSL). Despite years of laws and restrictions, Dumbuya […]
Anti-Poro society and child rights activist attacked
A poro society activist who is also a prominent child rights activist for the Children’s Forum Network was attacked on his way out of Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone yesterday. Reports say the group is believed to be members of the Poro Society who led the attack on him. This medium learned that the Anti-Poro activist […]
FGM: Initiators Target Child Rights Anti Bondo Society
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM), which is popularly known as the Bondo society has been a tradition in Sierra Leone since the days of our forefathers and it was a taboo for men and those who have not entered it to openly discuss it until recently, when Human rights activists and Women’s Groups decided to nip […]
Family Disowns Son for being Gay in Sierra Leone
The increasing reports of isolated physical attacks on persons found to be gay seem to have no end in sight as the recent case of Osman Sesay and his male partner John Kamara indicates. According to a resident and closed family member of Brima Lane, Kissy in Freetown who identified himself as John Kamara exposed […]
Sierra Leone fans attack player’s house after penalty miss
Angry fans of Sierra Leone’s national football team have attacked a player’s house after he missed a decisive penalty. Captain Umaru Bangura failed to convert a stoppage-time spot kick in front of a huge crowd on Sunday. It meant Sierra Leone failed to get through to the next stage of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Liberia […]
A message for the people of Sierra Leone
brothers and sisters Sierra Leoneans, I think up to now we are not learning any good lesson from the 11years of our post brutal civil war in the country, especially the youth. If the youth did not learn any good lesson during the war that destroyed many innocent precious lives of poor Sierra Leoneans, I […]
Sierra Leone Business: Air Passengers Drop By 48,000
First half data of 2017 show that the volume of air passengers who came in through the Lungi International airport dropped by 48 thousand. In 2016 over the same period, there were 215 thousand (215,355) people who came into the country. With 2017 data revealing a figure of 165 thousand (165,536) this gives us a […]
