Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio, has ended a successful one-day working visit to Burkina Faso at the invitation of his counterpart and Head of State, Captain Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso on Wednesday 7th August 2024. However, the visit was aimed at strengthening bilateral ties between the two nations. President Bio was warmly…
On Tuesday, 6th August 2024, the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) received distress calls from community members reporting a two-story building in a precarious state of collapse on Priscilla Street, Freetown. Responding swiftly, a team led by NDMA’s Western Region Coordinator, Gerald King, visited the site to conduct a thorough vulnerability risk assessment. Their findings…
Minister Counselor Ms. Sonia Umu Karim, Sierra Leone’s Deputy Political Coordinator presented Sierra Leone’s statement at the forum marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration and Program of Action on the Culture of Peace. In her address, Ms. Karim emphasized that the culture of peace embodies fundamental human rights, fosters peaceful dialogue…
The OAT District of Sierra Leone has made a historic leap in the film industry with the launch of the African Cinematic Universe, a pioneering initiative driven by young local filmmakers aged 16 to 30 In this ground breaking effort, Ni Adama Djata and the OAT Empire have teamed up with these emerging talents, securing…
The Ministry of Information and Civic Education (MoICE) has Wednesday 7th August 2024 hosted a one-day high-level dialogue on the draft National Civic Education strategy and accompanying policies, including the National Media and Information Policy, The National Film Policy and the National Records and Archives Policy at New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown. The event brought…
Four top-notch Liberian journalists have made key recommendations aimed at helping to avert potential threats of terrorism and violent extremism in the Mano River Union countries of Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and the Ivory Coast. The journalists are the Press Union of Liberia’s presidential hopeful, Julius K. Kanubah, News Public Trust Publisher, Frank Sainworla, Internews…
— Shun global body’s decision to embrace homosexuality, say the UMC of Liberia is not a Gay Church The United Methodist Church in Liberia has made its stance clear on the controversial decision taken by the United Methodist Conference in the United States to embrace homosexual practice within the church. Samuel J. Quire, Bishop of…
Monrovia —Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was visibly overwhelmed by grief as she attended the wake of her son, Charles E. Sirleaf, at the First United Methodist Church in Monrovia late Monday evening. The 85-year-old former leader, known as the “Iron Lady”, was described as speechless and deeply affected by the somber occasion, moving…
“I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”. Psalm 121:1 It is with profound sorrow that the Wento, Nyeswah, Cheaye, Dennis and Bannerman families announce the untimely death of Mr. Macdonald A. Wento, our beloved son, husband, father, grandfather, brother, cousin, son-in-law, and friend. This sad event occurred on…
February 8, 2006, David Crane, chief prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone appeared before the Subcommittee on Africa Global Human Rights and International Operations, a committee of the International Relations, United States House of Representatives. Crane asked Congress to push Nigeria to surrender former Liberian exiled President Charles Taylor to the Special Court…
