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My Every Day Heroes in Education
Commentary My Every Day Heroes in Education By David Moinina Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Meet Tucce Sarah Kollie, Winner of the PresidentBio Presidential National Best Teacher Award 2021 (photo). Ms Kollie graduated i...


Gambia: Barrow pledges to continue unification drive
By President Adama Barrow of the Gambia I am thankful for a historic victory for me and our great National People's Party, NPP. Gambians have spoken and decided to deliver us a clear-cut, compelling victory. Thank you for the enormous trust and c...


President Bio meets with top-ranking Chinese official
By President Jullius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone I was delighted to welcome H.E Yang Jiechi to State House. China and Sierra Leone have enjoyed 50 years of mutually beneficial friendship and cooperation. At our meeting today, we committed to contin...


Burning Questions on Covid-19 Omicron Variant and Africa
Commentary Burning Questions on Covid-19 Omicron Variant and Africa By Alhaji U. N'jai, Freetown, Sierra Leone The discovery of a novel Covid-19 variant (Omicron) in South Africa with significant mutations in its spike protein raises a lot of con...


Applications Now Open for the Telecel ASIP Accelerator, powered by Startupbootcamp AfriTech
Over the course of 2021, African tech startups raised $4.42 billion in funding - almost double the record-breaking $2.4 billion raised in the previous year. “With investment in African innovation increasing, so too has the demand for hands-on supp...


Sierra Leone and Liberia cooperate on corruption fight
By PV Staff A new and welcome trend happening in Africa is the close cooperation and exchange of experiences between Anti-Corruption bodies. There are regional ties like the one narrated below by Francis Ben Kelfala of Sierra Leone (right in photo)...


Sierra Leone: World Bank supports Mid-Term Census
World Bank support for statistical capacity building and open data initiatives is provided in response to high demand by our member countries, their constituents, and our development partners across the globe. Better data is fundamental to making th...


2021 Pulitzer prize winner Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a fed...


Driven to deliver vision – Overlanding with a purpose
Note from the Editor: The work Anton and his colleagues are doing in Southern Africa is massively important and they should be supported by all humanitarians around the world. I particularly like the fact that they train local people everywhere they...


Another term for the Gambia's ‘accidental president'?
Commentary Another term for the Gambia's ‘accidental president'? By Mattias Sköld, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden On 4 December, the Gambia will hold its first presidential election since Gambians ended the 22-year authoritarian rule of Yahya...



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