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When Rains Don’t Stop: The Race to Rebuild After Floods in Sierra Leone

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By Bhoyyie Jalloh Jamboria In the early hours of 31 August 2025, almost exactly a year ago, the sky over Sierra Leone did not simply rain; it emptied itself. Torrential downpours pounded the country for hours, overwhelming drainage systems and swelling rivers until they burst their banks across seventeen communities in seven districts. By the

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Tacugama Chimp refuge shuts doors to tourists to protest deforestation

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The eco-lodges and tree-covered footpaths of West Africa’s largest chimpanzee refuge have been devoid of tourists for more than two months as its founder stages a protest about rampant deforestation in Sierra Leone. Authorities acknowledge that the country’s rich wildlife is threatened by land seizures and illegal logging, but the founder of the Tacugama Chimpanzee

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Empowering Deaf Students Through Photography In Sierra Leone

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When a camera was placed in the hands of a student at the National School for the Deaf in Freetown, it represented more than a new piece of equipment. For the students expected to learn how to use it, the camera could become a new language — a way to document their lives, capture their

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Education as a Second Chance, Not Simply a Prison Programme

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The Sierra Leone Correctional Service’s (SLCS) renewed effort to establish stronger partnerships with the University of Sierra Leone, the University of Makeni and other educational institutions could mark an important stage in the country’s transition from a conventional prison system towards a genuinely rehabilitative correctional model. Speaking at the Government of Sierra Leone’s weekly press

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When Environmental Damage Becomes a Question of Responsibility

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For Caritas Freetown, the growing environmental pressures facing Sierra Leone are no longer issues that can be left to government agencies or environmental specialists alone. The flooding experienced in Freetown and other communities, alongside deforestation, coastal erosion, polluted waterways, poor waste disposal and destructive mining, is increasingly forcing ordinary citizens to confront the consequences of

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Who Is Protecting Female Students in Journalism Schools?

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…WIMSAL Must Go Beyond Statements The launch of WIMSAL’s new safeguarding policy is welcome, but as a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Fourah Bay College and a woman working in Sierra Leone’s media space, I am left asking a more uncomfortable question: what exactly does “action” mean if we are unwilling

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