Sierra Leone ALERT: Newspaper risks legal action for defaming President
The Press Secretary to State House, Sheka Tarawally, on May 6, 2008, threatened New Vision, an independent Freetown-based newspaper, with legal...
UTG 9 in scholarly research seminar
Nine students of the University of The Gambia (UTG), have been selected to attend Scholarly Writing and Research Methodology Workshop in Freetown,...
SIERRA LEONE: Maternity hospital is “last resort”
Two babies and several gaunt women are the only patients in the gloomy wards of the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown. The hospital...
SIERRA LEONE: Most prisoners have not been tried - survey
Over half the prisoners in Sierra Leone’s jails have not been sentenced, according to recently released survey data from the Sierra Leonean human...
Sister Rugiatu Kanu, a midwife in Sierra Leone. “We lack everything”
Sierra Leone has one of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the world. Among the myriad problems mothers there face is a lack of skilled,...
OBITUARY NOTICE
The families of Mr Okes Roberts, Mrs Avis Manga, the Roberts family, Mrs Nancy Johnson and family regret to announce the death ofMrs Lucy Elizabeth...
SIERRA LEONE: Government probes unrest in diamond-mining area
The Sierra Leone government has called for an inquiry into unrest over diamond-mining operations in the east of the country after residents were...
SIERRA LEONE: Musu: “The local chief says the man is always right”
At age 16 Musu was forced to marry a man twice her age. Seven years later, she has three children she can barely feed and scars from regular beatings...
Sierra Leone: Mass rally in support of survivors of conflict's sexual violence
At a mass rally held in Makeni in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone today, Amnesty International members and hundreds of other local activists...