Defence for Children International (DCI) with support from UNICEF-Sierra Leone has trained sixty community facilitators and mentors on life skills and the National Referral Pathways for abuse prevention, empowering youths and providing critical support to those affected by Sexual and Gender–Based Violence (SGBV).
Farmers’ Federation to hunt fake farmers
By Sorie Ibrahim Fofana
People purporting to be farmers when actually they are not, are going to be weeded out, according to Yatta Samah, the President of the National Federation of Farmers of Sierra Leone.
Yatta was speaking during the weekly press conference by the Ministry of Information and Civic Education held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10th October this year.
Over 300 to sit USL entrance exams
By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah
Three hundred and sixty-five applicants are set to take the faculty of Communications, Media and Information Studies at the Fourah Bay College (FBC) University of Sierra Leone’s diagnostic exam for the 2023-2024 academic year tomorrow.
Charity supports needy school children
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
As part of its support to worthy causes, the VEEDFLO Foundation has provided 36 vulnerable Children with school learning materials to help in their education.
The presentation was made during the launch of the foundation with the motto: ‘Creating positive mindset’ at the Armed Forces Technical and Education College (AFTEC) Wilberforce, Freetown on the 7th of October, 2023.
WIMSAL calls on journalist’s participation in peace building
By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya
The President of Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WMSL) Eastina Taylor has called on female journalists to promote dialogue and facilitate conversations in an effort to foster peace between conflicting parties in their communities.
Sierra Leone's First Lady wants Kush be tackled
By Saio Marrah
Sierra Leone’s First Lady, Fatima Jabbie Bio, has during the 2023 Girls Health Summit organized by West Africa Women and Girls Empowerment-Sierra Leone (WAWGE-SL), called for concerted efforts to tackle the harmful drug, Kush.
She made the call during her keynote address at the summit, held at the Freetown City Hall on Tuesday 10th October 2023, with the theme “Breaking Barriers On Adolescent Girls Health.”
1,173 hectares of Sierra Leone's National Park gone
By Nasratu Kargbo
Within ten months an estimated one thousand one hundred and seventy-three (1,173) hectares of land have been deforested in the country’s Western Area Peninsular National Park, according to Haja Kaday Sesay from Climate Change, Environment and Forest Conservation Consortium (CEFCON-SL).
