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Canada: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance meets with US Secretary of the Treasury
PV Staff The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, on Thursday met with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Janet Yellen (photo). According to a report from the office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the t...


African opposition leaders should be careful
Commentary By Gbaksondo Kloiloi, Freetown, Sierra Leone One of the legacies of colonialism in Sierra Leone is salary disparity. There used to be a vast disparity between the salaries of colonial officers from the United Kingdom and their local Sie...


Sierra Leone begins new AFCON journey
By Muctar Koroma Sierra Leone's 54-man delegation has departed the country last evening to set up a training camp in Guinea, Conakry for the AFCON qualification matches. Leone Stars are to play all its 2023 AFCON matches in Conakry due to the ban ...


Sierra Leone: Mid-Term census results presented to the public
By Our Reporter Statistics-Sierra Leone has today (Tuesday May 31) released figures of the recent Mid-Term census at their headquarters in Freetown. The following are the figures of the populations in the different regions of the country (see below...


Sahrawi writer Bahia Mahmud Awah
Bahia Mahmud Awah (born 1960) is a Sahrawi writer, poet and journalist. He is a founding member of the group of writers known as the "Sahrawi Friendship Generation". Personal life Bahia was born into a nomadic family in 1960 near Auserd, located in...


Abidjan: Guinean Tourist Board officials on working visit
PV Staff On a working visit to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the Director General the Guinean Tourist Board, Mrs. Kade Camara and her delegation met on Wednesday, May 24, her Ivorian counterpart, Mrs. Malékah Mourad—Conde, Director General of the Cô...


Africa's 2021 economic rebound impacted by lingering Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war
Africa's gross domestic product has recovered strongly in the last year, but the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing war could pose considerable challenges in the medium term. This is according to...


Canada: 328 Ukranians arrive from Poland
PV Staff Earlier this week 328 Ukranians fleeing the war in their country arrived in Canada from Poland. At the airport to receive them was the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland. Here are some of her thoughts o...


Global Prize winner from Sierra Leone meets with the Pope
PV Staff Not every Sierra Leonean at home and abroad gets to meet the venerable Pope Francis of the Catholic church. However, Jeremiah Thoronka, a 21-year-old Sierra Leonean student and winner of the Chegg.org Global Student Prize, was honoured to...


Junior Tumbu buried Tuesday May 24 in Freetown
By Our Reporter Sierra Leonean football superstar Lamin Conteh, alias Junior Tumbu, was buried today at the Kissy Road cemetery in Freetown. Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, members of the Sierra Leone Football Association executive and dozen...



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