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In a bid to promote women in leadership positions, the Sierra Leone Social Aid Volunteers (SLSAV) has concluded a one-day confab on women’s participation in leadership and decision-making at local governance level. The event, which was held at the Western Rural District Council hall at Waterloo, attracted over fifty participants from four constituencies, with support […]

Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Alie Badara Mansaray, received a standing ovation at the just concluded 12th African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Ministerial Forum in Addis Ababa after making a brilliant intervention. https://allafrica.com/stories/201308201485.html

The Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) of the African Agriculture Fund (AAF) is pleased to announce a grant of €280,000 to Center Piece Industries Limited (Center Piece) for the implementation of the TAF Smallholder Oil Palm Support Program in Sierra Leone. https://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/spip.php?article7324

VENTURES AFRICA – African diamond exporter, Sierra Leone says it shipped out diamonds worth $102 million in the first half (H1) of the year, a 43 percent rise as compared to the $71 million gained from exports during the same period last year. According to the country’s National Mineral Agency (NMA), the increase – which […]

Over Fifty Civil Society groups from Fourteen (14) districts in the country have condemned the draft government Land Policy for what they described as ‘not favorable’ and ‘Discriminatory’ to women in the country. This condemnation came up at a meeting held at the Makeni City council hall recently.The two-day conference on Land was organized by […]

Minister of Transport and Aviation, Leonard BalogunKoroma, has said that construction of the new airport at Mamamah, Mile 38, will commence soon. The minister was speaking last Wednesday while hosting the outgoing US Ambassador to Sierra Leone Michael Owen. In addition to the airport, there are also plans to begin the construction of a sea […]

My family is from Sierra Leone, but we do have a legend of sorts. I think it’s true, but because of the civil war that happened there, it would be quite difficult to get information from Sierra Leone. “My grandfather’s father was supposedly a half-Scottish, half-Greek man. It’s not clear how or why he came to Sierra […]

Riding the coattails of the largestdiamond company operating in the country, Sierra Leone significantly increased its diamond exports in the first six months of 2013, year-over-year, Mining Weekly reports. The West African nation exported 331,471 carats of rough diamonds worth $102 million between January and June 2013, a full 43% increase in value over the 296,334 carats of […]

It is said that in the late 1800’s, the widowed ‘Queen Nyarroh’ of Barri, fell in love with the Chief of Koya, who lived on the opposite side of the Moa river, behind Tiwai Island. As a gift of love, Queen Nyarroh gave half of Tiwai to the Koya Chief, so the Chiefdoms would share […]

The recently released Human Rights report for 2012 of the Human Rights Commission has said in their recommendations, that the Government should repeal the Seditious Libel provisions in the 1965 Public Order Act and also enact the Access to Information bill which was introduced in Parliament two years ago. In the report, it was stated […]