Feature

By Alpha Abu

Bo Rangers are the champions of the Sierra Leone Premier League just ended. Their sailing wasn’t that smooth all through and in fact at some point there was the feeling that arch rivals East End Lions would seize the opportunity of their stuttering in parts of the campaign, to come through.

By Kemo Cham

Mary is one of the lucky generation of Sierra Leonean teenage girls. Despite being pregnant, she had the opportunity to attend school like a normal girl.

Two years ago, Mary’s story would have been different, due to a ban on girls with visible pregnancies.

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 0.10% increase in COVID-19 infections, from March 6-20, 2022.

By Abdul Tejan-Cole

Last week, Rwanda and Britain unveiled a pilot scheme in which the latter will ship off asylum seekers who arrive in Britain "illegally" to the former for the whopping sum of £120 million.

By Franklin Sisabu Bendu

Last week, two key corporate institutions with significant foreign investment in Sierra Leone – Iluka Resources and Standard Chartered Bank Sierra Leone Limited (SCB-SL) were in the news. Both institutions have been an integral part of our economy – Iluka Resources in the mineral sector and SCB in the banking sector. 

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 0.05% increase in COVID-19 infections, from February 19 to March 6, 2022.

By Franklin Sisabu Bendu

Economists will almost always provide a risk analysis even when the economic climate is favourable. Global events of the past few weeks are exactly why economists do risk forecasts or analysis.