Addressing new recruits during the passing-out ceremony at the Sierra Leone Peacekeeping and Law Enforcement Academy Hastings Campus on Saturday 11th November 2023, Inspector General of the Sierra Police William F. Sellu said “Let me start by welcoming you all to this passing-out ceremony of Squad R1/2023, comprising of 1,100 recruits: 803 males and 297 females. The Basic Recruitment Training …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has, in two separate developments, met His Excellency Dr Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan, the Saudi Minister of Education and also engaged Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, PIF, the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In his meeting with Dr Yousef Al-Benyan, President Bio paid …

Hilton Hotel, Riyadh, Thursday, November 9, 2023 The Deputy Minister of Finance 1 of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Madam Jeneba Kpaka Bangura, has signed the Hospital Project Agreement with the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) for the construction of a Modern Referral Hospital worth a total of One Hundred and Eighty-seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Saudi Riyals (187.5 SAR), …

His Excellency, President Dr. Julius Maada Bio, has arrived in Riyadh to attend the Saudi-Africa Summit scheduled to take place on Friday, 10th November, 2023. The President was warmly welcomed at the Royal Airport in Riyadh by the Deputy Governor of Riyadh Province, His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. President Bio, who is visiting …

Ahead of the Financial Year 2024 Budget Speech Day on Friday, 10th November, 2023 the Government is currently scrutinizing proposals for tax increases on imported cement and iron rods, according to a senior official in the Ministry of Finance. An emergency Cabinet meeting was held yesterday to look at the proposals. Up until last night, there was no confirmation that …

The Deputy Minister of Sports, Kai Laurence Mbayo (KLM), through his philanthropic organization KLM FREE WELL BODY PROGRAM has embarked on providing free surgical operations for the people of Kono District and the country. On the 10th of October 2023, the KLM FREE WELL BODY PROGRAM commenced operations on 15 beneficiaries from Sandor, Gbaneh, Nimiyama and Tankoro Chiefdoms respectively in …

IMF staff and the Sierra Leonean authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the eighth and final review of the 60-month ECF financed program, releasing about US$20.4 million in financing once the review is formally completed by the IMF Executive Board. External shocks and policy slippages in recent years contributed to macroeconomic imbalances, including high inflation, …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday received the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, scorecard from the United States of America’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Bryan David Hunt, saying that it is always good to have an independent international assessment of his government. Ambassador Hunt said he was pleased to let the President know that in the 2023 MCC scorecard, …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. By the year 2000, an Isreali businessman Zeev Morganstein had taken the Government of Sierra Leone to the High Court in Freetown for failing to pay him about US$3M he was owed for supplying the Ministry of Defence with critical spare parts for a military helicopter owned by RSLAF (Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces). Zeev decided …

On 21st March, 2023 the Government of Sierra Leone signed a shareholders’ agreement with ARISE IIP (SL) Limited for the management of a special purpose vehicle in charge of managing and operating the Pepel rail and port. ARISE owns 90% of the company with 10% ownership by the Government of Sierra Leone. In the shareholders’ agreement, the Government of Sierra …