education

David Sengeh Is Best Minister At Global Government Summit 2023

Dr David Moinina Sengeh, Minister of Education, Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Republic of Sierra Leone, is the ‘Best Minister’ in the world. The announcement came at the World Government Summit 2023 in Dubai where he received an award in his honour from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime […]

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Iceland Commits to WASH Services in Rural Sierra Leone 

The Government of Iceland through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has committed to supporting the Government of Sierra Leone’s programme, ‘Improving Access to Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Services for Improved Livelihoods and Child-Friendly Environment in Rural Fishing Communities’, according to African Business. The project will improve water and sanitation services in 16

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Sierra Leone Tops 2022 Social Progress Index by World Economic Forum

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

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

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

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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Office of the VP Hosts National Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Fair

The Government of Sierra Leone is organising its first National Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Fair, NYEEF, that will create a space for networking and learning for over 500 young women and men aged 18-35, drawn from across the country.   This three-day event, which will be held from 15-17 November 2022, at the Freetown International

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