US Signs Historic Military Support Agreement with Sierra Leone to Strengthen Defence Cooperation and Regional Security

The United States Africa Command (US AFRICOM) has signed a military support agreement with the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF). The agreement, known as the Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA), was signed on Monday, 8th...

MoGCA and UNFPA Finish Training to Stop FGM in Sierra Leone

The Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs (MoGCA), in partnership with UNFPA, has concluded a three-day training workshop for health professionals, social workers, and law enforcement officers on strategies, implementation, and action plans to...

Sierra Leone Faces Critical Challenges in HIV Response, With Over 22,000 Not on Treatment

Sierra Leone has approximately 81,000 individuals living with HIV, according to data from the National AIDS Secretariat. Alarmingly, more than 22,000 of these individuals are not receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy, raising serious...

Trees are natural ACs for cities, if you plant the right ones

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today,” so the saying goes. Trees have been touted as solutions to many environmental problems, from reducing air pollution to restoring biodiversity. But much planting in...

Music quiz raises big sum for Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link

The money will be used to help provide better sanitation facilities at schools and create a new health centre in Sierra Leone. The quiz, organised by the Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link, saw 24 teams battling it out at St Paul's CE Academy...

Need to rescue free expression in Sierra Leone from the grip of power and silence – Op ed

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2025: In Sierra Leone, free speech is not a Western abstraction. It is a lived and dangerous aspiration, often bruised by the whims of the powerful and betrayed by the very institutions meant...

Palm trees in Africa are in decline: these botanists made a plan to do something about it

Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments as diverse as deserts and rainforests. Central Africa holds the richest variety, home to 52 species, while west Africa has 38 and east Africa 18. They form part of a global...

Pharmacy Board and Sierra Leone Police Sign Landmark MoU to Tackle Drug Peddling and Medicine-Related Crimes

The Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL) and the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) have signed a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding to combat drug peddling and medicine-related violations nationwide. The landmark agreement was formalized on...

IsDB Approves $1.27bn Projects Across 12 Nations, $50m for Agriculture in Nigeria

Members of Board of Executive Directors of Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) have approved a substantial number of projects amounting to about US$1.27 billion across 12 member countries in Asia, Africa and MENA. At their 362nd meeting on September...

Police Boss Receives Spanish Medical Team Ahead of Free Surgical Campaign at Police Hospital

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), William Fayia Sellu, has received a delegation of Spanish doctors who will carry out a free surgical campaign at the Sierra Leone Police Hospital in Kingtom, Freetown. Scheduled to run over several days, the...

Advisory: Top Health Groups Hold Health Justice Event in New York City

September 22, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On September 25 at 8 a.m. ET at the Yale Club in New York City, top health groups including Public Citizen and UNAIDS will hold “The Fight for Health Justice in an Age of Retreat,” engaging a panel of experts...

Vice President Breaks Ground for 7,000-Capacity Al-Ridwan Mosque in Freetown

Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has officially broken ground for the construction of the Al-Ridwan Complex in Lumley, Western Area Urban District, which will include a state-of-the-art mosque capable of accommodating 7,000 worshippers....

Sierra Leone to Participate in Africa Climate Summit on Clean Cooking in Addis Ababa

Sierra Leone will participate in the Africa Climate Summit 2 in Addis Ababa on September 9, with Kandeh Yumkella, Chair of the Presidential Initiative on Climate Change, Renewable Energy, and Food Security (PI-CREF), representing the country....

St. Edward’s Old Boys Class of 1992-1993 Donates Critical Medical Supplies to Fight Mpox in Sierra Leone

In a powerful show of patriotism and community spirit, the Old Boys of St. Edward’s Secondary School, Class of 1992-1993, have stepped up to support Sierra Leone’s fight against Mpox with a major medical supplies donation. On Friday, September 12,...

Sierra Leone’s Education Ministry Bids Farewell to 33 Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Awardees

The Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE) officially bade farewell to 33 Sierra Leonean students awarded the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship to pursue undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies in Hungary. The ceremony, held at...

Sierra Leone’s cardiologist Dr. Joe Amara Koroma returns home to help build the country’s healthcare

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2025: Sierra Leone’s development is seriously being hampered by the lack of human resources as much as the absence of meaningful financial investment capital. Hence, when professionally qualified and experienced...

China launches on-site first aid training initiative in Sierra Leone

FREETOWN, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The first Sierra Leone-China On-Site First Aid Training Center was officially launched on Wednesday at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital in Freetown, the capital of the West African country. The training...

Sierra Leone’s kush crisis, conscience on pause

Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2025: Sierra Leone is faced with a silent epidemic that is destroying lives and threatening the very foundation of our future: our young people. This epidemic is the Kush crisis, a cheap drug...

Nigeria at 65: When Numbers Lie

At 65, nations ought to show maturity. They ought to stand as examples of stability, development, and foresight. But Nigeria at 65 is a sobering reminder that adding years is not the same as making progress. We have counted time, but have failed...

WHO Donates Infection Prevention and Control Materials to Sierra Leone’s Health Authorities

The World Health Organization (WHO) handed over a new batch of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) materials to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the National Public Health Agency (NPHA). The handover ceremony took place at the...