By Charlie P Kallon (USA) Fellow Sierra Leoneans, Today 25 July, 2022. Please read carefully a portion of the Sierra Leone Electoral Calendar, posted to you and note an adjustment of the main section of the Electoral Calendar as follows: 1- MARCH...

July 25, 2022 Maskwacîs, Alberta If you need someone to talk to, a National Residential School Crisis Line offers emotional support and crisis referral services for residential school Survivors and their families. Call the toll-free Crisis Line at...

By Alhaji Njie, Freetown, Sierra Leone Our University of Sierra Leone team led by myself and Daniel Chaytor is among three African Universities awarded the inaugural Carnegie Mellon University- Africa (CMU-Africa) inclusive digital transformation p...

Members of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, Ms. Michaela Eddinia Swallow, Anthony M. B. Aruna and Sheku A. T. Tamu, have taken oath of office after their recent appointment by His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio (seen in undated p...

Today (July 19) 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 1...

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...