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Sierra Leone Tops 2022 Social Progress Index by World Economic Forum

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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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Caritas Freetown, HealeyIRF Partner to Improve Health Access

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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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Sierra Leone’s Draft Resolution on Child Sexual Exploitation

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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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Why COP27 matters to Sierra Leone

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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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Troglodyte Society donates cash to vulnerable disable groups, sch. material to pupils at Grafton

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Troglodyte Society on Saturday 30th July 2022 donated a cash sum to 11 aged persons living with disability and learning materials to school pupils in the Grafton Community. Each of the 11 beneficiaries (persons living with disability) received the sum of Le 260, 000, whereas, school pupils received school materials such as books, rulers, pens,

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FCC, UNCDF, ILO launches W4WP

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The Freetown City Council (FCC). the United Nations Capital Development (UNCDF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), together with their implementing partners, has launched the “Women for Water and Peace” (W4WP) Project at the New City Hall in Freetown. The project is funded by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund. Through a community-led approach, the

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President Bio commissions upgraded, BEmONC facilities in Falaba

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On the occasion of African Child Day, President Maada Bio commissioned two renovated Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) facilities for Falaba and Masandu on June 16. President Bio stated in his keynote address that when he turned the sod for the building of these two Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care HealthFacilities in

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