For years, discussions around gender equality in Sierra Leone had been stagnant, with little progress made toward passing crucial legislation Isha S.Y. Sumah, a 20-year-old university student, has always had a strong desire to make a difference in her community. Growing up in a society where gender inequality and violence against women and girls were
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The island of Nyangai off the coast of Sierra Leone is on the frontline of climate change. More frequent and intense weather has eroded Nyangai to a nubbin. But the crisis now unfolding on Nyangai is on a different scale. Over the past decade, the island has shrunk from roughly 2,300 feet long to just 560, according to The Atlantic. Today, Nyangai is disappearing before their very
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Sierra Leone may be a small country on Africa’s Atlantic coast, but it is part of China’s big ambitions to break its dependency on Australia and Brazil for its iron ore. More than 80 per cent of China’s iron ore comes from Australia and Brazil but Beijing wants to de-risk that supply. And the West African nation, along with other
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Whittington medic’s book wins prize for human rights writing Benjamin Brown in Sierra Leone A WHITTINGTON consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist’s book has won a prestigious prize for human rights writing. Benjamin Brown’s Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola tells the story of how he took time out from the Highgate hospital to help young women give birth
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC), in collaboration with the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the European Union, will today Thursday 18 January 2024, hold a technical roundtable on the Sierra Leone Cocoa Sector, at the Mamba Point Lagoonda Hotel, as part of its engagement with the Government of Sierra Leone and the private sector. In
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Pioneering woman coach says she is grateful to Keister after leg amputation, reports BBC Sport Africa The first woman to coach an elite men’s football club in Sierra Leone has thanked national team boss John Keister after he funded a life-saving operation to amputate her leg. Pioneer Victoria Conteh, who played in Sierra Leone’s first
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Aman from Sierra Leone has been arrested at the international airport for smuggling cocaine worth about Rs 14 crore into the country, a senior customs official said on Wednesday, according to NEWS18 in India. The accused was intercepted after her arrival from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 25. “The said passenger was diverted at the
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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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On 22nd October 2022, a Facebook post by Dr John Idriss Lahai prompted a discourse on social media platforms on whether the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Mohamed Lamin Tarawalley, Esq obstructed the arrest and detention of Ekundayoh Walton Gilpin, the General Manager of Rokel Commercial Bank. Mr. Gilpin has been in the news recently
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The World Food Programme (WFP) has completed its first round of conditional cash-based transfers in Falaba district as part of the cross-border, UN Peacebuilding Fund project, reaching 500 participating households which have 2,500 residents, half of them women, the UN Agency report states. The transfers were made to facilitate the construction of small-scale irrigation systems
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