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November 2016

Dallas, Texas, USA: October 23, 2016: The leader of the Kalokoh Movement, Lawyer Abu Bakarr Kalokoh, has reechoed concern that there has been a suppression of passion, friendly civility, and inability to make a better

The Ministry of Health and Health in collaboration with UNICEF and other partners are poised to kick start the National Polio Round Four Campaign on Friday October 28, 2016 targeting children o-59 months old countrywide. 

to  75 Top Scorers in the 2016 NPSE and donates school supplies to 75 vulnerable school children in Kono District. Generally speaking, primary school pupils in Kono District have performed very well in the 2016 National

The Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board, Ms. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles has told Metropolitan Police Officers that they must stop detaining petty traders who are suspected of violating municipal laws because it is illegal

Country Director Casely Ato Coleman, on Friday 21st October 2016, received the International NGO Leader of the Year Award at the 2016 Sierra Leone Leadership Awards organized by the Sierra Leone Council of Chief Executive

The Mamuntha Development Farmers Association is well set to help the government achieve its vision for the agriculture sector, which is increasing production and productivity and commercialize agriculture. Seven villages in the Kholifa Rowala Chiefdom

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, who is also the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Organisations in Vienna Austria, H.E Jongopie Siaka Stevens has engaged the most prominent tourism school in

It has always been a widely held belief that the main purpose of journalism is to inform, educate and entertain.  But the art of journalism can only flourish in a society that recognizes and promotes

The people of Sierra Leone have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to overcome challenges and lift themselves up. With the end of the civil war in 2002, the country set a strong democratic precedent and launched

Sierra Leone’s first-ever accountability forum that focuses on national and collective accountability for enforcing improved service delivery is currently underway in Freetown. The three-day forum dubbed the ‘2016 Accountability Conference’, which commenced today at the

Two of Sierra Leone’s main hospitals, the Princes Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH) commonly called Cottage in Freetown and the Makeni Government Hospital in the Northern region will soon commence the treatment of Cervical Cancer.  (Photo:

We do have challenges as a country, but we have come a long way. One area is the fight against corruption. President Ernest Koroma came in 2007 with the commitment to stepping up the fight

Sierra Leone's Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security was full of praise for the Mamuntha Development Farmers Association in the Kholifa Rowalla Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, where seven villages have jointly cultivated over one thousand

Are we to blame, the Leones, or the dollar? It is the due right of a citizen to have the passport of his/her country, but it was very much ridiculous for a statement to be uttered

The Solomon Ekuma Berewa Primary School in Charlotte village past Thursday 13th October, 2016 observed the foundation day of the School at a ceremony held at the school ground Charlotte village in the Western rural