President Julius Maada Bio today encouraged youth to be innovative, learn from experts and network as they seek to become employers and job creators at the first National Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Fair in Sierra Leone. Below is part of his keynote address to the over 500 young people who have converged on the […]
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First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Fatima Maada Bio, has introduced a Draft Resolution to Declare November 18 as the “World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence” at the UN General Assembly. According to a press release from the Permanent Mission of the Republic
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The recently concluded business for growth, not for survival trade fair in Bo, according to German International Corporation’s deputy program coordinator for the employment promotion program, Rudolfr Schneider, aims to transform survival-oriented businesses into market-oriented growth enterprises that will then achieve micro industrial status for increased job and income generation.The private sector component is one
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Sierra Leone and many African countries at the Cop27 in the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh have called on developed nations to stop talking and start acting on promises of financial support to help them tackle the fallout from climate change. Read the original story here The continent, which is home to
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“For you to have sustained economic development, you have to promote the economic emancipation of women,” said Sierra Leone’s Bank Governor, Professor Kaifala Kallon. Delivering a keynote address at the launching of the public relations roll out of the upgraded Sierra Leone Collateral Registry, yesterday Thursday 3 November at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Aberdeen the
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Shak D Unstoppable aka Mr. Fitness has reached new heights with his brand new single #LefBadHeart. The rapper summarized his life experience in the music industry, which is riddled with envy and hatred, in this new song ‘Lef Bad Heart’ Shak uses himself as a microcosm that mirrors society at large. A society entwined with
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Wildcat Petroleum Monday announced that it has completed a study of the petroleum potential of deepwater blocks offshore in Sierra Leone following an agreement with the country’s Petroleum Directorate, which also accepted the finds. The company says that “the work confirmed our initial ideas regarding the good hydrocarbon potential of the deep offshore [Sierra
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Written by Babatunde A. Ahonsi, UN Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone is among the 10 percent of countries in the world that are most vulnerable to the adverse consequences of climate change, and presently one of the least able to cope with the effects. Unpredictable weather patterns, severe flooding, mudslides, and associated crop
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Sierra Leone’s debt-to-GDP is projected to trend around 72 per cent in 2023 and 71 per cent in 2024 by JAMES NDWARU Whereas a complexity of concerns presages a landscape beset with considerable difficulties in the year ahead, Sierra Leone’s debt-to-GDP burden should be of particular concern to leaders and key stakeholders. Sierra Leone stands among
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Sierra Leone has passed 11 out of the 20 indicators on the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, the scorecard for 2023, making it the country’s fourth consecutive pass since the government of President Julius Maada Bio in 2018. The compacts are five-year agreements through which the United States Government provides grants to partner countries, Sierra
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