PV Staff Not every Sierra Leonean at home and abroad gets to meet the venerable Pope Francis of the Catholic church. However, Jeremiah Thoronka, a 21-year-old Sierra Leonean student and winner of the Chegg.org Global Student Prize, was honoured to...

By Our Reporter Sierra Leonean football superstar Lamin Conteh, alias Junior Tumbu, was buried today at the Kissy Road cemetery in Freetown. Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, members of the Sierra Leone Football Association executive and dozen...

PV Staff Oulimata Sarr, Regional Director for UN Women in West and Central Africa, has expressed delight in bringing together in Dakar, Senegal, all the UN Women country representatives in West and Central Africa. According to Sarr, this is an ann...

PV Staff The new Education minister in France, Pap Ndiaye (photo), has a Senegalese father and a French mother. This might seem normal to a lot of people but it is a groundbreaking and even shocking appointment in France. It is perhaps a thank you...

PV Staff The Director General of the National Tourist Board of Guinea, Mrs. Kade Camara, met with her Burkinabe counterpart, Mr. Aimé Ouedraogo, Director General of the Burkina Faso National Tourist Board (photo) and Mrs.Ouedraogo Ilboudo, Directo...

By Our Reporter At a recent international conference in Freetown in which he represented President Bio, Vice President Juldeh Jalloh (seen on the right in photo) spoke highly about the enormous progress being made by Sierra Leone in the field of ed...

PV Staff Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered what he called strong support to the decision of Finland and Sweden to pursue NATO membership in a statement from his office in Ottawa today. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) All...

By Our Reporter The parliament of Sierra Leone Tuesday carried out two actions that that will have a significant impact on the country. One is the approval of the nomination of the first CEO of the new Student Loan Scheme and the second is the mak...

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (born 20 June 1990) is a Senegalese writer. Raised in Diourbel, Senegal and later studying in France, Sarr is the author of three novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his n...

The ECA Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA) in collaboration with the Angolan Government and the United Nations Resident Coordinator's Office in Angola held a side event at the margins of the 54th session of the ECA Conference of Africa...