By Our Reporter The incumbent Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) chairman, Alex Prince Harding (photo), has been re-elected in a very tight contest in Bo, the second largest city in the country. He scored 529 votes to beat his strongest challenger, ...

Press release translated by The Patriotic Vanguard Nearly two weeks after the celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui signed two commitments of the Government of...

Norma Dunning (born 1959) is an Inuit Canadian writer and assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta, who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collection Annie Muktuk and Other Stories. In the same year, she won the W...

Contributed The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ghana has recognized and awarded its Head of Communications and Partnerships, Ms. Praise Nutakor, for outstanding leadership and service towards the attainment of the Sustainable Develo...

In the wake of recent developments in northern Ethiopia, UN Secretary-General António Guterres (photo) on Saturday urged warring sides to seize the opportunity to bring an end to more than a year of fighting in the Tigray region. Mr. Guterres has ...

Note from Editor: Here is a report on the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and r...

By President Julius Maada, Bio of Sierra Leone Today (Thursday, December 23), I switched on the CLSG Electricity Interconnection line at Tiloma. Kenema and Bo will from this day on enjoy uninterrupted electricity supply. As a Government, sustainab...

PV Staff Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada recently released new ministerial mandate letters as guidelines on how to perform their duties or what is expected of them. Not many governments around the world do this, while some those that do cal...

Book Title Africa An Introduction Book Description Africa: An Introduction invites you into Africa: a continent rich with culture and history, with diverse populations stretching from the dense tropical rain forest of the Congo basin, right up to ...

Sierra Leonean male model Uthman Bangura...Someone to watch! By Kwame Cumalé Fitzjohn, PV Special Contributor, USA On Dec 1, I was in Istanbul on what should have been a few hours layover from DC en route to Sierra Leone, my homeland. My transit,...