Education and Health

Mayor Aki-Sawyer’s waste management project at Kingtom and Kolleh town is improving health and saving lives

Mallam Osman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2023: One of the development projects implemented by Yvonne Aki-Sawyer as Mayor of Freetown is the much-needed faecal sludge plant in Kingtom and Kolleh Town communities, which is now improving health and saving the lives of people in poor communities. The sludge (sewerage) [Read More]

Education and Health

UNFPA welcomes high-level commitment for the wellbeing of adolescent and young people in West and Central Africa

UNFPA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2023: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) West and Central Africa Regional Office welcomes the high-level Ministerial Commitment for Educated, Healthy and Thriving Adolescents and Young People in the region, endorsed by Ministers of Education and Health from 24 countries in the region, in [Read More]

Education and Health

WHO expert committee says COVID-19 must remain a public health emergency of international concern 

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 January 2023: The World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has advised that COVID-19 continue to be categorized a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The Committee, which is established under the International Health Regulations (IHR) and convened by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director [Read More]

Education and Health

COVID-19 vaccine partnership boosts Sierra Leone’s vaccination efforts with $2.8 million  

Sierra Leone Telegraph:  26 January 2023: The COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership, (CoVDP), yesterday handed over vehicles including motorbikes and computers worth over $2.8 million to support Government of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 vaccine deployment. CoVDP is a joint venture of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (Gavi), the United Nations Children’s [Read More]

Education and Health

Let’s take a look at Sierra Leone’s education system under previous and current government and the impact of Bio’s Free QEP – Op ed

Ibrahim B. Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2022: The impact of a bad education regime has started haunting this nation. An education regime involves current government policies and practices and the role of education service providers, education authorities and teachers. Let me quickly address a few negative impacts of [Read More]