By Saidu Jalloh Daily Scope – Freetown President Julius Maada Bio on Thursday called for stronger use of the ECOWAS Common External Tariff and a region-wide shift to digital customs systems, saying outdated border controls cannot match 21st-century threats. Speaking at the 32nd Conference of Directors General of Customs of the World Customs Organization for…

By Kadijatu Bangura Daily Scope – Freetown China has restated its support for Sierra Leone’s drive to modernize its power sector and expand electricity access, following talks between Ambassador Zhao Yong and Energy Minister Cyril Grant in Freetown on Thursday, 7 May 2026. During a courtesy call at the Ministry of Energy’s conference room, Ambassador…

By Kadijatu Bangura Daily Scope – Freetown More than 10 people are feared dead after a shipping container toppled onto victims along the Rokel–Waterloo Highway on Thursday, plunging the community into mourning. The incident occurred in Rokel near the Rokel Container terminal. Initial reports put the death toll at six, but updated accounts from the…

By Saidu Jalloh Daily Scope News Sierra Leone has launched a preliminary inquiry into reports that a vessel intercepted by Spanish authorities with a large cocaine haul may have departed Freetown on 22 April 2026. The Office of National Security, in a press release issued Wednesday, 7 May, said it has not received formal notification…

By Kadijatu Bangura, Daily Scope News Sierra Leone has cut its maternal death rate sharply in recent years, but experts warn that too many women still face life-threatening risks in pregnancy and childbirth. Isata Dumbuya, Director of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health at Partners in Health Sierra Leone, told a Ministry of Information…

By Saidu Jalloh, Daily Scope News Sierra Leone’s newly appointed Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, H.E. Philip Bob Jusu, formally assumed duties as Head of Mission to the European Union on Wednesday, 6 May, after presenting his letters of credence to the presidents of the European Commission and the European Council in Brussels. Ambassador…

By Joseph Momoh, Daily Scope News Sierra Leone’s Right to Access Information Commission is “one of the most-performing oversight bodies on access to information in Africa,” Information and Civic Education Minister Chernor Bah said Wednesday. Speaking at the national validation of a draft bill to review the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation Act, held at the…

By Kadijatu Bangura, Daily Scope – Freetown The opposition All People’s Congress has called for “action beyond dialogue” following a high-level meeting with President Julius Maada Bio at State House on Tuesday, 5 May 2026. An APC delegation met the President in Freetown for what both sides described as a constructive engagement on national stability…