In some areas of the world, radios play an essential role in promoting development and raising awareness on a wide range of issues, from health to human rights. The radio waves can also be a powerful tool for promoting women’s leadership, as demonstrated by the Radio Nyapui (meaning ‘woman’ in the local idiom) station in […]
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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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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 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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Sierra Leonean lawmakers on Tuesday 15 November 2022 passed legislation to introduce a gender quota in parliament, a major campaign promise by the president, following years of delays and false starts, reports AFP.com. After several hours of debate Tuesday, members of parliament voted unanimously to pass the Gender Empowerment Act, ensuring that one in three
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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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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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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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By Sulaiman. Sesay With funding from the Aids Healthcare Foundation, the National Commission for Children (NCC) has on Tuesday 25th October 2022, commemorates post-International Day of the Girl Child. The theme for this year’s commemoration is “Girls! Our time is now -our rights, our future.” The commemoration also saw the Launching of a campaign titled
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