Human rights in Sierra Leone – has the ruling APC done enough to deserve a ...
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2017 Since coming to power in 2007 several journalists and political opponents have been arrested and detained behind bars by the Koroma government of Sierra Leone....
View ArticleSierra Leone News: 62,000 child deaths in Sierra Leone due to lack of toilets
Some 36 prominent international health and development experts including WaterAid, AMREF Health Africa, the World Medical Association and others have called for an end to a crisis that has claimed the...
View ArticleUK firm 'employed former child soldiers' as mercenaries in Iraq
Former director acknowledges Aegis Defence Services may have recruited former child fighters in Sierra Leone...
View ArticleDeath penalty will not reform disenfranchised youths in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2016 As the government of Sierra Leone prepares to resume the death penalty, despite recent commitment to abide by United Nations’ and other global human rights...
View ArticleSoldiers fly out from Northern Ireland base to aid Ebola fight in Sierra Leone
Soldiers based in Northern Ireland are to be deployed to Sierra Leone on a humanitarian mission to combat the Ebola outbreak. Around 40 troops have already arrived in the West African country, a...
View ArticleGhosts of war haunt an Ebola graveyard in Sierra Leone
To find Andrew Kondoh, walk through the gates of this city's largest cemetery, where teams in moonsuits bury more than 50 bodies in white plastic bags each day. Look for the man with the wispy goatee...
View ArticleSharing the blame for the increase in child abuse in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has a long way to go before it can guarantee the full enjoyment of the rights of the child. There are still many challenges that require timely attention, from both state and non-state...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : Zainab Bangura Wins Hillary Clinton Award
One of Sierra Leones most outstanding women of her generation Haja Dr. Zainab Hawa Bangura has once again brought laurels to herself, her family and her Nation by being named the winner of the...
View ArticleCOMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS THE REPORT OF SIERRA LEONE (UNOG...
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 15 September 2016 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of Sierra...
View ArticlePresidential Address Delivered By His Excellency the President Dr Ernest Bai...
(Source: Republic of Sierra Leone State House) MR. SPEAKER, MR. VICE PRESIDENT, MY LADY THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MINISTERS OF GOVERNMENT, HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, EXCELLENCIES, MEMBERS OF THE...
View ArticleThe forgotten child prisoners of Sierra Leone
Sorie's* last day of freedom was a few weeks before his 14th birthday, when the well-to-do father of a girl he liked got word that his daughter had been hanging around with a street boy. The girl's...
View ArticleHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS OUTCOMES OF UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF SIERRA...
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) Concludes General Debate on Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms 24 June 2016 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted the outcomes of the...
View ArticleNews24.com | Ex-child soldier from Sierra Leone freed in Minnesota
A former child-soldier from Sierra Leone has been released after more than two years of immigration detention in Minnesota. ......
View ArticleSierra Leone News : Sierra Leone needs a Credible Data to reduce Maternal...
Friday 05 August 2016: The World Health Organization Country Representative, Dr. Anders Nordstrom has averred that Sierra Leone needs credible data in the fight to reduce maternal and child morbidity...
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone, Liberia risk Ebola-like outbreaks from poor...
Sierra Leone and Liberia risk new deadly epidemics akin to the impact of the Ebola virus due to lack of clean water and hygienic conditions in most homes. ......
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone emerges from Ebola nightmare
The Ebola epidemic is expected to be declared over in Sierra Leone this weekend, when the west African nation will have gone 42 days without any new infections. ......
View ArticleNews24.com | Head of CDC in Sierra Leone as concerns grow from new case
The director of the US CDC is in Sierra Leone for consultations on Ebola and the country’s health system as new concerns grow about how many people may have been infected by a single case in the...
View ArticleNews24.com | British Ebola patient flown home from Sierra Leone
A female British healthcare worker who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone has been flown home for treatment, the ministry of defence says....
View ArticleNews24.com | Red Cross nurse dies from Ebola in Sierra Leone
A nurse working for the Red Cross in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola in the eastern district of Kenema, where no new cases had been reported for 37 days, the organisation says....
View ArticleComment on Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers used as cheap labour for...
War nor good o! War nor good. The repercussions of a war that started in Sierra Leone 1990 are being felt up-till now in 2017, with disastrous consequences. The lives of these former rebels could have...
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