Alleged warlord, Gibril Massaquoi, who faced trial in Finland, accused of murder, rape and other war crimes as commander of the former Revolutionary United Front, RUF, is facing a retrial following his acquittal last year which will continue in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The BBC’s Christopher Ojilere reported that the suspected warlord from Sierra Leone […]
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Directorate of Relief and Response of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) in collaboration with UNICEF, UNDP, FCC, CONCERN, SLRCS, CARITAS and the Sierra Leone Police has conducted a needs assessment and registration of the affected victims of the Susan’s Bay Fire Incident. Director of Communications, Mohamed L. Bah, told journalists at the scene
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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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January 6th, 2023 marks exactly 203 years since the first organized immigration of freed enslaved people departed from New York Harbor on a journey to Sierra Leone, a place that established itself as a haven for all slaves and people of color. See face2faceafrica.com for details on this story. This expedition was a significant moment
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The Archbishop of Freetown in Sierra Leone has paid tribute to Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, describing him as a loving grandfather of the Church who left a treasure for upcoming theologians. Read aciafrica.org for the original report. In his homily at the Requiem Mass of the former Pope, Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles described the late Pope emeritus
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An International Monetary Fund, IMF, mission, led by Christian Saborowski, has visited Freetown from November 30 to December 9, 2022, for the sixth review of Sierra Leone’s financial and economic programme supported by the Extended Credit Facility, ECF. The ECF arrangement for Sierra Leone was approved on November 30, 2018 (see Press Release No. 18/446 ).
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund on Monday 12 December 2022 announced the approval of $12.16 million in additional grant funding for the Rice Agro-Industrial Cluster Project in Sierra Leone. The project was first approved in November 2021. The Sierra Leone Rice Agro-Industrial Cluster (SL RAIC) Project, in the rural floodplain areas
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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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The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors Monday 5 December 2022 approved the Second Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Development Policy Financing (DPF) – a $100 million grant which will support the Government of Sierra Leone to improve natural resource governance, enhance inclusiveness, and strengthen accountability and transparency in public finance. This DPF, the
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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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