Women who are in prison for violent offenses have usually committed the violent act in response to domestic and/or sexual abuse. Defenses of self-defense often fail women with a slow-burn reaction to violence. If you want to read more about women...

By Ousmane Diagana World Bank Vice President, Western and Central Africa Region Each day, an estimated 137 women worldwide are killed by a family member, and 52 of those killings occur in Africa. Gender-based violence is preventable, but it will ...

Tayeb Salih (July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO. He is best known for his novel Season of Migration to the North, consi...

Contributed On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women ( today November 25), His Excellency Lansana Gberie, Ambassador of Sierra Leone to Switzerland (centre in photo) met with the Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Ri...

As part of efforts to promote Destination Guinea, the Director General of the Guinean National Tourist Board, Mrs. Kade Camara, accompanied by His Excellency Grand P, the great Iron Biby (World Heavyweight Champion) and some executives visited the L...

A new study by UNODC and UN Women shows that, on average, more than five women or girls were killed every hour by someone in their own family in 2021. The report comes ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on ...

Commentary By Heba Habib, Nordic Africa Institute While Western nations push for a united African position on the war in Ukraine, many factors need to be understood about African choices, Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) researchers say. They list fo...

The SLRSA recently reported that there were 9,623 road crashes in Sierra Leone from January to September 2022. Of these, there were 225 fatalities involving 95 male and 135 female On Tuesday, 22 September, the Sierra Leone Police presented its own ...

The 2022 annual Political Dialogue between the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone and the European Union (EU), chaired by H.E. Rtd. Brigadier General Dr. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, took place at State House ...

A shortlist of 15 African entrepreneurs and their pioneering technologies aimed at environmental rehabilitation, education, and human health and safety have been selected for the 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, founded by the Royal Aca...