Sinneh T. Moijueh is a young Sierra Leonean poet and businessman. He lives in Freetown. Here is one of his poems, Africa is rich but poor, read aloud by himself in the following video: - Literary Zone

By Arlene Dickinson, CEO at Venturepark, Canada When you are a start up and have ten major problems to solve the answer isn't to try and solve everything at once. Even though they are ALL important you have to tackle them in bite sized efforts. If ...

Sierra Leone has made history, becoming the 110th country in the world to abolish the death penalty for all crimes London based NGO, The Death Penalty Project, has played a significant role in bringing about this momentous change. The Abolition of...

By Professor Afua Cooper, Canada Teaching the Civil Rights Movement. On the issue of the Montgomery bus boycott and Rosa Parks. Several Black women refused to give up their seats to Whites way before the NAACP chose Parks to engage in that piece of...

By President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone Today, I have fulfilled a governance pledge to permanently abolish the death penalty in Sierra Leone. I thank citizens, members of Parliament, development partners, and rights groups that have steadfas...

PV Staff Many Africans stop opening books after their first university degree or when they get a job they are comfortable with. All they would do then until they retire is to take care of their immediate and extended families. Even when they retire...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today (July 23) issued the following statement on the opening of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan: “Today, the entire world will unite for the official opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan. This is an o...

The journalist and legal scholar Amy Lai has been awarded the 2021 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for courageously reporting on the “threats faced by both individuals and democratic institutions” in her native Hong Kong, and for ground-breaking sch...

By WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Geneva The Delta variant is ripping around the world at a scorching pace - present in over 100 countries - and driving a new spike in #COVID19 cases & death. We are experiencing a worsening pu...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the West Africa Trade and Investment Hub, has awarded a $1.2 million co-investment grant to Warc Group, a social enterprise with agricultural production and consulting operation...