You may have heard of Sierra Leone as “the most dangerous place in the world to give birth.” No longer true: Deaths in pregnancy and childbirth have plunged 74 percent since 2000, according to United Nations figures. That arc is visible here in Sierra Leone, a country that remains heartbreakingly poor — yet where the risk of a […]
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As part of his commitment to advancing shared values and exploring partnerships for the promotion of purposeful leadership and Pan-Africanism, the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, has made a symbolic visit to the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation in Abuja, Nigeria. The centre, established by friends, associates and members of the
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Infinitum Energy Group, a developer of global power projects, has tabled a bid to create a waste-to-energy power plant in the capital city of Freetown that aims to add 30 megawatts to Sierra Leone’s energy supply and sell electricity generated by refuse back to the government. The ambitious plan is to rid the city of
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The United Nations in Sierra Leone has announced the formation of its Youth Advisory Group (UN YAG) that will advise the UN Country Team (UNCT) in the country on key youth issues of importance, according to a UNFPA Newsletter in June. The United Nations in Sierra Leone is pleased to announce that after reviewing over
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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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The Management of TRANSCO CLSG today issued a statement in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, expressing regret that on November 29, 2022, at 5:18 PM, their 225/33 kV 40 MVA Transformer, installed at the CLSG Kenema Substation in Tiloma, tripped due to the activation of its Bulcholz Relay. This led to the loss of stable power in
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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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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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Interpol from Sierra Leone has joined their counterpart in Guinea to track down fugitive convicted murderer Baimba Moiforay alias LAC after he was spotted at the Kipe Tourisme Hotel in Conakry on Tuesday. Sources say he was in Room 8 at the hotel but left a day before the raid was conducted on Wednesday
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The President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, has joined hundreds of relatives and mourners to give a befitting and dignified burial to those who lost their lives in the tragic fire disaster of Friday 5 November at PMB Junction, Wellington. Sheik Ibrahim Barrie and Bishop Arnold Temple, who led the ceremony in prayers at
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