Africa Sierra Leone 'There is no more space to build houses' is the alarm raised by coastal Freetown residents, forced to build houses on land "reclaimed" from the sea in a process known as banking
Africa Sierra Leone Africell, a Sierra Leone-based mobile phone company, has donated beach cleaning equipment worth thousands of dollars to two top clean-up organisations at its Lumley Beach Road branch
Africa Sierra Leone A pilot project for the verification and monitoring of reforestation programmes involves the use of drone-based remote sensing and data management technologies
Africa Sierra Leone The Freetown City Council presented the city's Climate Action Plan to the World Bank's Climate Action Mission, launched in the country three weeks ago
Africa Sierra Leone The just approved Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act states that 30% of government and private sector jobs in the country will be reserved for women
Africa Sierra Leone The country has endowed itself with a Diplomatic Service Academy, the first in the country and in the Mano River Union region, which was inaugurated in recent days by President Julius Maada Bio
Africa Sierra Leone Sierra Leone's central bank has become the first in Africa and the second globally after Israel to raise interest rates this year
Africa Sierra Leone Betting on education to grow the country is President Maada Bio's political strategy, with the recent allocation of 22% of the state budget - one of the highest in the world - to schools to enable the abolition of school fees that burden families
Africa Sierra Leone Amnesty International appealed to the government to keep on ensuring the protection of the human rights of people living near the Meya Mining diamond mine
Africa Sierra Leone Africell, a Sierra Leone-based mobile phone company, recently donated beach cleaning equipment worth thousands of dollars to two top clean-up organisations at its Lumley Beach Road branch
Africa Sierra Leone Four of the country's top lawyers have filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against President Bio's directive to change the voting system
Africa Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio addressed over 500 final year students, graduates and young entrepreneurs from across the country, challenging them to be innovative and focused
Africa Sierra Leone 29 billion Lions (€1,6 million) have been disbursed for the renovation of 538 primary schools in the form of grants through the Sierra Leone Free Education Project by the Ministry of Basic and Higher Secondary Education