[WFP] Freetown, Sierra Leone -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a EUR 9 million contribution from the European Union (EU) to launch a transformative three-year project aimed at reducing biodiversity loss and improving the q...

[MFWA] Shar Maturi, a senior reporter with the Standard Times Newspaper, was briefly detained on August 27, 2025, at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Freetown over allegations of cyberbullying and stalking. He was released the same day...

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The African Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) is accelerating efforts to mobilize resources in its fight against mpox, one year after declaring the outbreak a public health emergency of continental security.

[allAfrica] At least 29,000 women and girls globally die every year from complications from unsafe abortion. In Sierra Leone, out of the 150,000 unintended pregnancies that occur every year, 90,000 end in abortion. Out of these, 8 in 10 abortions end...

[Afrobarometer] Most citizens say governments should be required to promote regional and ethnic balance in making political appointments.

By John Potvin,rofessor, Art and Design History, Concordia University Concordia University, Concordia University, Canada Despite the hyperbolic and fleeting tendencies of the fashion industry, few designers have had the impact of Giorgio Armani, w...

The global trade landscape is rapidly changing, as the United States fundamentally transforms all of its trading relationships. The effect is profound – displacing workers, disrupting supply chains, forcing companies to rethink where they source t...

Canada's new government is ready to get our country building major infrastructure projects again – in partnership with Indigenous Peoples. To that end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, convened the Métis Major Projects Summit in Ottawa to discuss...

As the world gets more and more dangerous over the years but more so in recent times, the Canadian goverment has decided to raise the pay of the country's Armed Forces. General Jennie Carignan (pictured) is Chief of the Defense Staff of the Canadia...

The follwing press release was issued by the office of Prime Minister Mark Carney today Tuesday August 11: Prime Minister Carney and President Zelenskyy agreed on the categorical imperatives of ending Russia's barbaric war of aggression and establi...