Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the Sierra Leonean, Sandra Jusu (photo) was last month awarded as the winner of the For Women In Science 2021 Prize by the Fondation L'Oréal and UNESCO during the official ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda. This...

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland yesterday delivered a 2021 Economic and Fiscal Update of Canada. As expected she spoke on the global pandemic, climate change, the financial situation of Canada and the recent ac...

Today the African Union (AU) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) opened the first international Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2021) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with over 10,000 participants expected fr...

Women must be at all decision-making tables, not just when it comes to so-called “women's issues.” From addressing affordability, to creating jobs, to building a resilient recovery, we need your voices across the spectrum of economic work. That...

Commentary By Juliet Kamara, Freetown As the SLPP National Convention draws near, the SLPP has been blessed with a more credible alternative, Alhaji Momodu Koroma, to replace embattled Dr. Prince Harding as National Chairman. Alhaji Momodu Koroma...

Writing Writing has always been a pleasure. Even as a boy at school I looked forward to the class set aside for writing a story, or whatever our teachers thought would interest us, more than to any other class on the timetable. Then everyone would f...

Commentary Nurturing Internal Party Democracy and Constitutional Rule in the Governing Sierra Leone People's Party: Can David Sengeh's IEMOC Pass the Test? By Owen M.M. KaiCombey, Ireland Introduction Following the chaos that characterised the el...

Press Release Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) wishes to inform the general public that the night of 9th December 2021 was the Census Night, as proclaimed by HE the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Dr Julius Maada Bio. The main enumerat...

Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh (first from left in photo) was in Ghana recently. Here are his comments on the visit: Our meetings continued yesterday, with the Ghana Grid Company hosting me and my delegation as part of our cross-learning enga...

By President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone Today (Wednesday December 8), I had very productive discussions with Dr. Taufila Nyamadzabo, the World Bank 's Executive Director for Africa Group 1, about the World Bank's continued support to Sierra L...