At home with refugees

For the last 25 years, I have been sharing my home with refugees, sometimes for the odd night, at other times for up to two years. From 2011 to 2013, I edited a free annual magazine for the City of Sanctuary movement called Bristol Globe. It told...

Global health leaders seek stronger health agencies to prevent future pandemics

Global health leaders have called on countries to strengthen their national public health agencies to ensure better preparedness and resilience against future pandemics. They made the call on Sunday, in Berlin at the 2025 World Summit during a...

Title: Pearls of Sustainable Peace — A Gambian writer’s manifesto for moral and global harmony

- Advertisement - By Cherno Omar Barry – Professor of Comparative Literature BOOK PROFILE Title: Pearls of Sustainable Peace Author: Muhammed Trawally ISBN: 978-9983-94-496-9 Year of Publication: 2025 Publisher: Self-Published, The Gambia Length:...

NaCSA Commissioner Engages Sierra Leone’s Geneva Ambassador on Refugee Frameworks

Commissioner Ernest Mbaimba Ndomahina of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) paid a courtesy visit to Ambassador Dr. Lansana Gberie and staff at Sierra Leone’s Permanent Mission in Geneva following the opening of the 76th Session of...

Bouncing back: Forgive or forget?

Matt Brocklebank gives his assessment on a handful of horses looking to bounce back to their best at Ascot and Del Mar in the coming weeks. "Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this..." Total...

West African Civil Society urges reform of investment treaties to advance development, climate justice 

By James Amoh Junior Accra, Oct. 9, GNA – Civil society organisations from across West Africa have called on governments in the sub-region to urgently reform existing investment treaties that undermine national sovereignty, hinder development, and...

Sierra Leone’s Clerk of Parliament Elected First Vice President of African Parliamentary Clerks’ Association

The Clerk of the Parliament of Sierra Leone, Karmoh K. Conteh, has been elected First Vice President of the Association of Clerks and Secretaries General of African Parliaments (ASGAP). The election took place during the Association’s Sixth Annual...

CAF Hold Arrival Meeting with Sierra Leone U-17 Delegation

The CAF Local Organising Committee held an arrival meeting with the Sierra Leone U-17 team on Saturday as they arrive in Bamako for their upcoming fixtures in WAFU A Qualifiers for the AFCON U-17 Tournament. The meeting was convened at the Hotel...

Standards Bureau Partner with SLRSA to Regulate Vehicle Spare Parts Importation in Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA) and the Sierra Leone Standards Bureau (SLSB) have officially entered into a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing the quality assurance and safety standards of vehicle spare parts imported into the...

Chief Minister Sengeh Calls for Collaboration with Sierra Leoneans Abroad

Chief Minister, Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, called for Collaborative Problem-Solving with Diaspora Community while speaking during the United States edition of the Civic Day Series on the 30th September 2025. He expressed the government’s...

High-Level Meeting Held to Strengthen Tobacco Control in Sierra Leone

Tobacco use in Sierra Leone is linked to more than 3,300 deaths annually, costs the healthcare system approximately SLL 108 billion, and results in total economic losses of around SLL 404 billion, according to recent estimates. The impact is most...

Africa could have some of the cheapest electricity in the world

Africa is more than twice as sunny as the Netherlands, has 90 times more people, and is nearly 800 times larger. But the continent’s total solar power capacity last year was less than that enjoyed by the Dutch. This year, finally, imports of solar...

Ambassador Yumkella Presents Credentials to Guinean President Mamady Doumbouya

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, Alhaji Mohamed Foday Yumkella, presented his Letters of Credence and the recall of his predecessor to President General Mamady Doumbouya at a colourful ceremony held at the President’s Lodge in...

Sierra Leone Joins UN Water Convention to Strengthen Transboundary Water Cooperation

Sierra Leone has officially joined the United Nations Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UN Water Convention). The signing took place during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in...

ChildFund Sierra Leone and KOICA Hand Over Newly Constructed Classroom Blocks to Government Rokel Secondary School and FAWE

ChildFund Sierra Leone, in partnership with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), officially handed over newly constructed school facilities at Government Rokel Secondary School and the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)...

EPA-SL Hosts Liberian Counterpart to Strengthen Environmental Collaboration

The Environment Protection Agency of Sierra Leone (EPA-SL) has warmly welcomed a high-powered delegation from the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA-Liberia) to foster stronger collaboration in addressing pressing environmental...

Sierra Leone Co-Chairs 30 Years Commemoration of United Nations Youth Programme

Sierra Leone co-chaired the United Nations’ commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) on September 25, using the global platform to issue a forceful call for genuine youth inclusion and financing....

He lives alongside lions in Nairobi. The human-wildlife collision is dazzling - and dangerous

KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — This year, less than a kilometer from where I live, a girl named Peace Mwende was killed by a lion. KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — This year, less than a kilometer from where I live, a girl named Peace Mwende was killed by a lion. The...

UNDP Trains 100 Women Entrepreneurs Through EWASME Project in Sierra Leone

UNDP Trains 100 Women Entrepreneurs Through EWASME Project in Sierra LeoneThe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through its Empowering Women-Led and Women-Owned Small and Micro Enterprises (EWASME) project, has successfully trained 100...

If cities could speak: vulnerability, climate and health in the city

Cities in the global South hold some of the greatest, but most overlooked, climate-related health challenges. Yet, they are also places where there are major opportunities to not only tackle health and climate change together, but also overcome...