Rachel Moussié: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2018: On March 8 each year trade unions and women’s rights organisations mark International Women’s Day by calling for policies and legislation that better support working women. Such calls relate to wage equality, maternity leave and early child care programmes. But these demands [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2018 Merck Foundation – a non-profit organization and a subsidiary of Merck KGaA Germany, has announced that it is establishing a partnership with the First Lady of The Gambia Foundation – Fatoumatta Bah Barrow (FaBB) foundation. The partnership aims to achieve Merck foundation’s objectives of [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2018: On Monday, February 5th to 10th 2018, Sierra Leone Women are Free to Choose (SLWAFC), a community-based organization in Freetown and The National Sowie Council inaugurates its first Female Circumcision Awareness Week. This weeklong – first in history event – coincides with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2018 Significant new financial commitments from donors and developing countries will enable new and improved support for the education of millions of children Ten current and three former heads of state and more than 60 ministers gathered at the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Financing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2017: For many years, Sierra Leone’s health service sector has been marred by the lack of vital medicines, risking the lives of millions of patients who must make do with either fake alternatives or go without. While thousands of people die every year due to [Read More]
Ahmed Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2017 A man hunt has been launched in the village of Kamayusufu, Bombali District of Sierra Leone, for Alhaji Massie Kallon, who they say has refused to be initiated into the traditional poro secret society as an obligation to assume the mantle of [Read More]
Dr. Lans Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2017: Anyone wanting to understand why two former response workers who survived infection by the deadly Ebola virus, have sued the government of Sierra Leone in the Ecowas Court of Human Rights for violation of their right to life (among others), needs [Read More]
The AdvocAid Fambul: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 December 2017 The AdvocAid fambul is delighted to announce that Simitie Lavaly has been nominated for the award of Legal Practitioner of the Year 2017. This is part of the annual National Achievement Awards (NAA), organised by All Works of Life (AWOL). Simitie, [Read More]
Zipporah Musau: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2017: At the dawn of independence, incoming African leaders were quick to prioritize education on their development agendas. Attaining universal primary education, they maintained, would help post-independence Africa lift itself out of abject poverty. As governments began to build schools and post teachers [Read More]
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