Opinion The infighting in the SLPP By Sylvester Rogers, Freetown, Sierra Leone The Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ) aged 70, is one of the oldest political parties in black Africa that used to be well known for conducting themselves and their ...

By Our Correspondent Canadian writer and development specialist, Ian Smillie, has through Sierra Leone's Ambassador to Switzerland Dr. Lansana Gberie donated over 1000 books to Fourah Bay College library in Freetown. The books, for which Ambassador...

By Mark-Anthony Johnson, Gibraltar Turkey is aiming to deepen economic and military ties with Africa, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks at a major summit of African heads in Istanbul and called for a seat representing the continent at ...

By Praise Nutakor, UNDP-Ghana, Accra We have only 8 years left to the SDGs deadline and we need to empower our media partners to report and advocate for more social changes with evidence. Congratulations to the 40 Journalists who have completed ou...

The Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) Board of Directors held its quarterly meeting yesterday and selected Belize and Zambia as newly eligible to develop MCC compacts—the agency's five-year grant program. As part of its annual discussion o...

Cassava Technologies and Mitsui Sign a Memorandum of Understanding to Accelerate Digital Transformation in Africa Cassava Technologies (CassavaTechnologies.com), Africa's first integrated tech company of continental scale, today announced that it h...

By PV Staff The Minister of Health of Canada Jean-Yves Duclos (photo) has advised Canadians to avoid non-essential foreign travel at this time. Prime Minister Jean Trudeau first made the announcement explaining that it is to avoid the further sprea...

The first international Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA2021), hosted by the African Union (AU) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) concluded its main programme today following three days of sessions focuse...

Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the Sierra Leonean, Sandra Jusu (photo) was last month awarded as the winner of the For Women In Science 2021 Prize by the Fondation L'Oréal and UNESCO during the official ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda. This...

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland yesterday delivered a 2021 Economic and Fiscal Update of Canada. As expected she spoke on the global pandemic, climate change, the financial situation of Canada and the recent ac...