Sierra Leone

The Freetown King Jimmy market, one of West Africa’s oldest historic markets established during the slave trade and afterwards a central market for women selling goods, fish, textiles, is to be rebuilt into a modern indoor market

Sungrow, the PV inverter and energy storage provider, has successfully commissioned the RESPITE Solar-plus-Storage Project, Sierra Leones’s first major national-scale power generation project completed and connected to the grid in nearly a decade

Serenimind, an African mental health and wellness startup, has begun its monthly Africa-wide youth wellbeing campaign series, with a focus on child emotional wellbeing in Sierra Leone; it's titled “The Child Behind the Smile: Every Behaviour Has a Story”

In the occasion of the C-40 meeting in London, which she chaired, Mayor of Freetown met with organization Breathe Cities to explore investment initiatives that will improve air quality, public health, and quality of life for Freetonians

In open letter to President Bio, the opposition leader stressed that Spanish Interior Minister linked “Mocro Mafia” to the MV Arconian investigation and said presence of fugitive Bolle Jos in Sierra Leone indicates organized transnational criminal links

A ship departed from Freetown was intercepted and diverted to Canary Islands, in a crackdown on international drug trafficking; Spanish police found aboard 35-40 tonnes of cocaine in what has been called “record-breaking cocaine seizure in the Atlantic”

The case of Zainab Sheriff, a young female activist sentenced to four years and two months on counts of 'incitement and use of threatening language', contrary to national law, has stirred debate as she reportedly only expressed views about electoral fraud

A growing number of corpses are being found in public spaces; Freetown started burials for sanitary and humanitarian reasons and asked government to investigate on the use of drugs as cause of death, but the matter was solved issuing 'removing' policies

A nationwide ban on artisanal fishing, small-scale fishermen, and industrial trawlers was imposed for the month of February to allow stocks to rebuild; the 2026 "closed season" is now over and all activities have resumed

The All People's Congress APC boycotted parliamentary and local council activities following President Bio's appointment of a new Chief Electoral Commissioner

Citizens expressed dismay following the release of 2024 Auditor General Report, which shows that one of the key institutions they anticipated could be implicated in the embezzlement of public funds, the Office of the President, was not in the document