In March 2022, Sierra Leone marked 31 years since the first shots were fired to signal the onset of what would become a brutal war that lasted a decade. As a nation, Sierra Leone is still deeply wounded. The country’s wounds were not just inflicted by the civil war, which started on Mar. 23, 1991, …
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Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court, in a ruling delivered on Friday, has convicted human rights lawyer and social commentator, Augustine Sorie-Sengbe Marrah, for criticising a decision of the court in a social media post. A panel of five judges had, on Monday, upheld a presidential appointment to the position of Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). …
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Over two centuries after the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Creoles of Sierra Leone still do not enjoy full citizenship recognition in their country. Their forebears, shipped out of Africa as slaves to Europe and the Americas between the seventeenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries, were repatriated back to the continent …
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Sierra Leone opened schools for pupils in examination classes in primary, junior and senior secondary schools on July 1, 2020, after about three months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an announcement by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE), the government promised to make available materials for the safety of …
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The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, has released a statement on the reopening of schools on July 1, 2020, for candidates who are to take public exams at the primary, junior and senior secondary school levels. A data of the total number of candidates who will sit for …
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Two Chiefdoms, Kagboro and Fakunia in the Moyamba District in Sierra Leone will benefit from a two-day training of 100 Peace Mothers, with support from the Fambul Tok International, in collaboration with Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund (ATJLF). The training was focused on conflict early warning systems, mediation and reconciliation to further promote social cohesion …
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The United States Government’s President Malaria Initiative (PMI) programme on Thursday, June 18, 2020, supported the health sector in Sierra Leone with 290,000 doses of malaria medicines, including test kits worth millions of Leones. Sierra Leone was first announced as a new U.S President’s Malaria Initiative Country in 2017, to synergize efforts between the two …
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To combat massive logging and climate change, five million trees are to be planted across Sierra Leone between now and 2024 to benefit the health, water and agriculture sectors among others, officials say. Freetown’s main source of water supply is about 13 miles from the city centre. Called the Mile 13 Peninsula, the Guma Valley …
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In market places, bus queues as well as slum communities in Freetown’s Western urban and Western rural, social distancing and wearing of face mask recommended by WHO to check the spread of COVID-19 are almost non-existent, a situation causing big concern for the government COVID-19 response team and health workers. A survey carried out by …
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On Friday, May 22, Sierra Leonean authorities ordered a COVID-19 retest on 85 Sierra Leoneans deported from Kuwait and 67 were confirmed positive on Sunday, prompting concerns from both Freetown and Kuwait City. HumAngle gathered that the head of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 response, Retired Brig-Gen. Kellie Conteh, directed that two samples be collected from each …
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Among the Pidgin English speaking urban communities of West African there is a saying that serves as a warning against exuberant rascality: “trouble dey sleep, nyanga come wake am.” This translates to: “trouble is on a self-elected retreat but pride comes upon it with a provocation.” Along the coastal beaches in Sierra Leone’s Western Area …
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