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Wed, 03 Sep 2025 05:26:12 GMTEU Contributes 9m Euros for Groundbreaking Biodiversity and Community Development Projects in Sierra Leone
[WFP] Freetown, Sierra Leone -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a EUR 9 million contribution from the European Union (EU) to launch a transformative three-year project aimed at reducing biodiversity loss and improving the q...
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:38:19 GMTSierra Leone - Journalist Detained Over Cyberbullying Allegations
[MFWA] Shar Maturi, a senior reporter with the Standard Times Newspaper, was briefly detained on August 27, 2025, at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Freetown over allegations of cyberbullying and stalking. He was released the same day...
Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:12:39 GMTAfrica CDC Pushes For More Support In Fight Against Mpox
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The African Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) is accelerating efforts to mobilize resources in its fight against mpox, one year after declaring the outbreak a public health emergency of continental security.
Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:51:28 GMTA Real Commitment to Women's Lives - Pass the Safe Motherhood Bill
[allAfrica] At least 29,000 women and girls globally die every year from complications from unsafe abortion. In Sierra Leone, out of the 150,000 unintended pregnancies that occur every year, 90,000 end in abortion. Out of these, 8 in 10 abortions end...
Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:20:52 GMTLarge Majorities of Sierra Leoneans Favour Cross-Party Collaboration Over Divisive Politics
[Afrobarometer] Most citizens say governments should be required to promote regional and ethnic balance in making political appointments.
Sierra Leone Patriotic Vanguard
Ministers Dabrusin and Hodgson outline Budget 2025's new Climate Competitiveness Strategy
From: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Global trade upheavals, rapid technological change, and the clean transition are reshaping the world economy. Canada's economic strategy must adapt—and fast. Budget 2025: Canada Strong is our plan to ma...
Topic of the Week: Fasting
By Gibril Koroma, Editor and Publisher, the Patriotic Vanguard
We are introducing a new column this week with the title Topic of the Week. We will be selecting interesting articles from writers of various disciplines from several countries around t...
Prime Minister Carney outlines Budget 2025 measures to enable $1 trillion in total investments
The world is increasingly dangerous and divided. Changes in the global trading system are causing massive disruptions and uncertainty for Canadians. In addition to that upheaval, business investment has been flat in Canada for a decade. This has cau...
Childhood wealth and social status can help people get leadership roles in adulthood
By Steve Granger, Assistant Professor, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Julian Barling Distinguished Professor and Borden Chair of Leadership, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
Nick Turner Professor and Futu...
Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson
My Nocturne
By Ishion Hutchinson
Cradle eyes cradle
me make me ladle me
take me bonfire me
the river uncouples
and couples me
the city incinerates
me heavens me cradles
me brightness of blood
coal me quarantine me
hammock me in the gravey...
Sierra Leone Standard Times