Today (July19) We Remember A Selfless Journalist and Politician: Ibrahim Bash Taqi (1934-1975) Thanks, @deMonk75 for sharing the piece about the impact of modern-day cybercrime legislation on free speech and freedom of information. Today is the 19...

What makes me tick: Viola Nilah Nyakato on pregnant girls being shut out from school We've asked Nordic Africa Institute scholars why they chose a career as a researcher and what motivates them in their work. Viola Nilah Nyakato (photo) talks abou...

By Assem Abu Hatab, senior researcher, the Nordic Africa Institute Apart from being a humanitarian tragedy, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has also emerged as an exogenous shock to global food supply chains, with severe consequences for many African ...

Mrs. Mabel Findlay (photo), who passed away recently, taught Geography at the Albert Academy in Freetown for decades. Thousands of her former students remember her with fondness and gratitude. There will be a vigil at Christ Church, Pademba Road on...

Thanks for Sympathy (Late Gibril Foday-Musa Laid to Rest) Thank you for thinking of our family during this difficult time. Thank you so much for the condolences expressed in a moment of despair which lifted us from our grief. We truly appreciated...

By Alhaji Njie, Freetown, Sierra Leone I am happy to have provided technical leadership, direction and overall writing as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) that led to the award of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Grand Challenges Plannin...

This month, 12 oxygen concentrators and 12 oximeters arrived at the “34 Military Hospital” in Freetown, Sierra Leone - organized by “Aid Pioneers e.V.” in cooperation with “Apotheker Helfen e.V.” from Germany. Oxygen concentrators are u...

PV Staff The detained Tonkolili district APC chairperson, Madam Yabome Sesay (seen in old photo) has been released. She was detained at the CID headquarters in Freetown on Wednesday and released yesterday morning, Friday July 15. Her detention ha...

As committed to earlier this year, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland (photo), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, today (Thursday July 14) confirmed that the provinces and territories have now received an additional $2.85 billion in fundin...

The capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, home to over two million people has been connected and is now enjoying the much-awaited 24-hour electricity from the CLSG grid. “People are upbeat and there is excitement all over town,” says Freetown resid...