Gender

Caritas Freetown, HealeyIRF Partner to Improve Health Access

Education, Gender, Health, Politics /

The development arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown in Sierra Leone has been selected as the implementing partner of a project by the Healey International Relief Foundation (HealeyIRF), a development agency that seeks to improve health access in the West African country. Announcing the new collaboration on November 18 at a press conference, Ishmael Alfred Charles, […]

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President Bio Addresses UK House of Lords on Leadership in Troubled Times

Business, Economy, Education, Gender, Politics /

President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra leone is in spending four days in London, United Kingdom, first to share his leadership strategies with the House of Lords on the COVID-19 pandemic and the current global economic crisis and later to meet private sector investors, according to State House.   “As the pandemic spread and we

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What President Bio told Young People Seeking Jobs and Entrepreneurs

Business, Education, Gender, Politics /

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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Sierra Leone’s Draft Resolution on Child Sexual Exploitation

Gender, Health, Politics /

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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Why COP27 matters to Sierra Leone

Agriculture, Business, Economy, Education, Environment, Gender, Health, Politics /

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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To sustain covid-19 campaign- SL should establish strategic doc for vaccination Program Manager EPI

Gender /

Mabinty Kamara went into hiding at her friend’s place after her mother who happens to be a medical practitioner compelled her to go and take the covid-19 vaccine. For Kamara, the vaccine will prevent her from bearing children, hence, she would not settle for it.’ She told me that she doubt the existence of covid-19

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‘Access to finance is crucial for women to survive in politics’- Gender experts says

Gender /

Hannah Kabba said she shy away from politics when she realized that she does not have the resources needed to be able to venture into it. “I had longed developed the passion to venture into politics, but the lack of money has made it almost impossible for me to pursue that dream,” she added. On

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