Alleged warlord, Gibril Massaquoi, who faced trial in Finland, accused of murder, rape and other war crimes as commander of the former Revolutionary United Front, RUF, is facing a retrial following his acquittal last year which will continue in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The BBC’s Christopher Ojilere reported that the suspected warlord from Sierra Leone […]
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Directorate of Relief and Response of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) in collaboration with UNICEF, UNDP, FCC, CONCERN, SLRCS, CARITAS and the Sierra Leone Police has conducted a needs assessment and registration of the affected victims of the Susan’s Bay Fire Incident. Director of Communications, Mohamed L. Bah, told journalists at the scene
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The Government of Iceland through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has committed to supporting the Government of Sierra Leone’s programme, ‘Improving Access to Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Services for Improved Livelihoods and Child-Friendly Environment in Rural Fishing Communities’, according to African Business. The project will improve water and sanitation services in 16
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Sierra Leone is top among eight other countries, including The Gambia, Ethiopia and Guinea-Bissau that have shown the most improvement in the 2022 Social Progress Index, although the rate of social progress has slowed significantly in recent years, according to the World Economic Forum. The International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, which engages the foremost
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Mongabay’s Ashoka Mukpo visited the Sherbro estuary, a sprawling riverine ecosystem of mangroves among coastal fishing villages on the coast of Sierra Leone in April of this year. See details in this video documentary. It is suffering the impacts of climate change, much like other coastal communities in West Africa. A USAID project financing the
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January 6th, 2023 marks exactly 203 years since the first organized immigration of freed enslaved people departed from New York Harbor on a journey to Sierra Leone, a place that established itself as a haven for all slaves and people of color. See face2faceafrica.com for details on this story. This expedition was a significant moment
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The Archbishop of Freetown in Sierra Leone has paid tribute to Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, describing him as a loving grandfather of the Church who left a treasure for upcoming theologians. Read aciafrica.org for the original report. In his homily at the Requiem Mass of the former Pope, Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles described the late Pope emeritus
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