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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Sierra Leonean lawmakers on Tuesday 15 November 2022 passed legislation to introduce a gender quota in parliament, a major campaign promise by the president, following years of delays and false starts, reports AFP.com. After several hours of debate Tuesday, members of parliament voted unanimously to pass the Gender Empowerment Act, ensuring that one in three
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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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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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Sierra Leone and many African countries at the Cop27 in the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh have called on developed nations to stop talking and start acting on promises of financial support to help them tackle the fallout from climate change. Read the original story here The continent, which is home to
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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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Sierra Leone’s debt-to-GDP is projected to trend around 72 per cent in 2023 and 71 per cent in 2024 by JAMES NDWARU Whereas a complexity of concerns presages a landscape beset with considerable difficulties in the year ahead, Sierra Leone’s debt-to-GDP burden should be of particular concern to leaders and key stakeholders. Sierra Leone stands among
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Sierra Leone has passed 11 out of the 20 indicators on the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, the scorecard for 2023, making it the country’s fourth consecutive pass since the government of President Julius Maada Bio in 2018. The compacts are five-year agreements through which the United States Government provides grants to partner countries, Sierra
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Col. Mamady Doumbouya, head military junta in Guinea, who recently announced a 39-month transitional period before elections, today visited President Julius Maada Bio, a man who, in 1996, transferred power from a military regime to a democratically elected govt in the small West African nation. State House did not exactly communicate details of the
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Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Dr Moinina David Sengeh, says the decision taken by universities to conduct entrance examinations for students after getting their requirements is a reflection of the successes of the Free Quality School Education (FQSE). “No matter where one sits on the discourse of education transformation in Sierra Leone,
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