By Marian Magdalene Bangura  Minister of Information and Civic Education,  Hon. Chernor Bah The Minister of Information and Civic Education, Chernor Bah, has highlighted Sierra Leone’s remarkable progress in empowering girls and women, in New York during the United Nations CSW event. “In 2018, a girl born in Sierra Leone faced

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Political narratives often travel faster than documentary evidence. In Sierra Leone’s post-election political landscape, the Agreement for National Unity has become the subject of competing interpretations. Some commentators have portrayed the Tripartite reform process created under the agreement as stalled or ineffective. Yet a careful reading

By Josephine Sesay The First Lady of Sierra Leone and President of the Organisation of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD), Fatima Maada Bio, has strongly condemned child marriage, describing it as a form of “legalised rape” and urging greater global efforts to end the practice. Mrs. Bio made the

By Josephine Sesay The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with CTC Mining Sierra Leone to enhance the participation of Sierra Leoneans in the company’s operations and expand opportunities for local businesses in the mining sector. The agreement was reached during a meeting between

By Ishmael Bayoh For the past week, our highlight is the progress report received at State House by His Excellency, President Julius Maada Bio from members of the Presidential Council for Delivering Feed Salone . As Chairman of the Presidential Council for Feed Salone, on Thursday 12th chaired a key

By Konpap Sumner Sierra Leone has joined Morocco to firmly establish itself as one of the top African destinations for 2026, joining Ethiopia and Botswana as an essential hotspot to visit. Africa is experiencing a tourism boom, and 2026 promises to be a dynamic year for travel across the continent.

The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Guma Valley Water Company (GVWC) and with support from the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has successfully concluded a three-day Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Training Workshop for the Water Sector aimed at strengthening institutional capacity to deliver large-scale

The Right to Access Information Commission (RAIC) engaged the Ministry of Defence and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) in a bid to raise awareness and enhance compliance regarding reactive and proactive disclosure of information in the defence sector. Guiding the process of compliance with the Right to

H.E Saud Musa’ad Abo Musaed, Ambassador Designate of Saudi Arabia to the Republic of Sierra Leone, paid a courtesy visit to His Excellency Ambassador Mohammed Barrie at the Sierra Leone Chancery in Riyadh on Thursday. The newly appointed Saudi Ambassador met with Ambassador Barrie, Deputy Ambassador Abdul Aziz Turay, Brigadier