Ichor Blood Services, a private lab specimen collection company based in Calgary, Alberta has added quantitative COVID-19 spike protein antibody testing from the Mayo Clinic to its portfolio of privately available tests in Canada. The newly availabl...

During the previous weeks new long term volunteers arrived in Masanga Hospital. Dr Tom will take over from Dr Hanna as resident of the Global Health Tropical Medicine (GHTM) postgraduate training. We welcome Dr Tom and wish Dr Hanna goodbye. The Me...

The Ministry of Finance has today Wednesday 28th July 2021 hosted the signing of a sixty-eight (68) Million Dollars project which the Government of Sierra Leone has secured to finance the Sierra Leone Education Sector Support Project (SLESSP) for bo...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (has) completed the third and fourth reviews of Sierra Leone's performance under the program supported by an Extended Credit Facility (ECF). Completion of these reviews enables the IMF to...

Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu writes to Amanuel Asrat on his 50th birthday. Translated by Issayas Beyene. I'm stuck where to start. I'm also anxious that I'm knowingly writing you a letter you cannot receive or respond to. I hope that, one day, though ...

Contributed Vision is the ability to see beyond, through a mission to an expected end. Gulf American University (GAU) with the vision to surface as a universal leader of excellence in higher education to meet the aspiration of the international lea...

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...