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Freetown: Williams family launches scholarship fund
The family of Boston CEO Frederica Williams have launched a scholarship fund in memory of the late Mrs. Matilda Effehsochee Williams (photo) at the Mother's Union School in Freetown to support 12 students and three teachers at the school on Tower Hi...


Canada imposes sanctions on Myanmar
Canada imposes sanctions on Myanmar military officials in response to coup d'état February 18, 2021 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today (February 18) announced that in response ...


Time to resolve the Sierra Leone Mining Company issue once and for all
By Gibril Koroma, Editor and Publisher, Toronto, Canada The impasse between the Sierra Leone Mining company which is interested in the iron ore at the Marampa mines in Lunsar, north of Sierra Leone, and the Sierra Leone government has dragged on fo...


Ambassador Maria Brewer says goodbye to President Bio
By PV Staff Writers One of the most loved and perhaps most effective American ambassadors that have ever served in Sierra Leone, Ambassador Maria Brewer, is leaving the country at the end of her tour of duty. This is the normal thing to do in the ...


Black History Month: US publication features Frederica Williams of Sierra Leone
By Gibril Koroma Ethnic Online, a US publication based in Boston, has featured has featured Sierra Leonean-born Frederica Williams this month as part of it's celebration of Black History Month. In his article, Leonard Webb, one of the online magaz...


Becoming a Sierra Leonean
By Dr. Adrienne T. Hunter Becoming a Sierra Leonean citizen as a Black American of the diaspora is a moment of "stand still" in time. I have always dreamed of my ancestors' journey and what better way to reverence them than to come home? Sierra L...


Sierra Leone, Guinea, sign communique
Sierra Leone, Guinea Sign Communique, Commit to Mutual Security, Public Health and Socio-Economic Interests By State House Media and Communications Unit on February 16, 2021 Conakry, Republic of Guinea, Tuesday 16 February 2021 – His Excellency ...


A letter to my mother
By Sinneh T. Moijueh, Freetown, Sierra Leone Today (September 25) marks the birthday of a woman possessed by God's love, and gives forth an evidence of the beauty of his creation. I woke up this morning, with emotions of love, as I enjoyed the bea...


Julius Maada Bio School of Excellence, Magbass
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio last Friday commissioned the first senior secondary school at Magbass, named after him in the Mamuntha and Mayossoh Sections in Kholifa Rowalla Chiefdom, northern Sierra Leone. The school was constructed...


Makeni: President Bio calls for more rural banking
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has told the opening of the Union Trust Bank, UTB, branch in Makeni last Friday that he is proud of the only indigenous private bank in Sierra Leone promoting more access to services in the rural areas. ...



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