March 20, 2024

Cultivating Seeds of Change in Sierra Leone

New African Society (NAS), a youth-led Sierra Leone-based organization, is working for the development of self-sufficient communities to alleviate generations of poverty within the country. The organization offers services that promote the advancement of agricultural projects within the region, seeking to remedy a lack of opportunity for socioeconomic mobility and food insecurity.  “We have identified the […]

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OPINION: David Sengeh Confesses On Why He Cuts Dreadlocks

By David Moinina Sengeh, Chief Minister of Sierra Leone On Jan. 23, I represented my country’s government before the U.N. Security Council, where I called for a cease-fire in Gaza and justice for all parties. The following day, International Day of Education, I gave a lecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education on “radical inclusion,” a strategy for social

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Sierra Leone Must Confess Sins Against Environment

Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown in Sierra Leone has challenged citizens of the West African nation to treat their abuse of the environment as an “ecological sin”, which must be confessed. In his Sunday, March 17 homily during the Lenten Pilgrimage of his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Tamba Charles expressed concern that people are

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