Usually reliable sources have confirmed that the European Union has approved and signed a €50M grant with the Government of Sierra Leone to upscale energy access in the country. The windfall from the European Union comes hot on the heels of the government of President Brig. (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio finalizing the Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact Grant which is also …

Sierra Leone’s resident Honorary Consul in Lebanon, Pa Hashim Hussein Hashim, yesterday addressed Sierra Leoneans residing in Lebanon, following the tragic death of five Sierra Leonean citizens in a devastating fire accident in the Bouchrieh Dam region of Lebanon on 11th March, 2023. Two others with critical burns are currently hospitalized in Lebanon. Pa Hashim Hashim expressed profound and sincere …

The Paramount Chief of Marampa Chiefdom in the Port Loko district, PC Bai Koblo Queen 11, last Friday, travelled to Freetown to speak exclusively to the Global Times Newspaper on allegations of the mysterious death of three of his subjects allegedly tortured and murdered by some white security personnel employed by Marampa Mines Limited. According to PC Koblo Queen 11, …

The Inspector General of Police, Mr. William Fayia Sellu together with Heads of the Family Support Unit (FSU), the Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU) and the INTERPOL, on Tuesday March 7, 2023, held talks with a team from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at Police Headquarters in Freetown. The theme of the meeting was centered on …

United States Vice President Kamala Harris will be the most senior American official to visit Africa this year in late March. The tour to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia is scheduled for 25 March to 3 April. This visit will be the most high-profile as the US and Russia go pound-for-pound countering each other in Africa, as the war in Ukraine …

The UK Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, yesterday met and held fruitful discussions with His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio in Freetown James Cleverly has meanwhile signed a Memorandum of Understanding with his Sierra Leonean counterpart Prof. David Francis on Trade and Investment at the Foreign Affairs Ministry on Tower Hill in Freetown. The MoU is to foster mutual understanding …

The Regional Police Division in Port Loko has been accused of delaying investigation into the mysterious death of three local residents of Tainratha Village in the Marampa Chiefdom, Port Loko district. The three Sierra Leoneans were allegedly beaten, tortured, murdered and thrown into a nearby lake by some white security personnel working for Marampa Mines Limited. The incident took place …

𝐁𝐲 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢. The UK Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly and the British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Lisa Chesney, have praised Babadi Kamara for his untiring and patriotic service to humanity in Bo district in particular and Sierra Leone in general. The two UK diplomats, who were on a snap visit to Bo City, had fruitful engagements with Babadi Kamara, …

Family members of three Sierra Leoneans allegedly murdered by some South African security personnel employed by Marampa Mines Limited in the Port Loko district have called on the Government to set up an inquest to ascertain the cause and manner of death. The incident took place in October last year. They have questioned the autopsy report presented by Dr. Owizz …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. According to official results announced by Christiana Thorpe in the run-off Presidential election held on 8th September, 2007 Ernest Bai Koroma of the APC (All People’s Congress) emerged victorious with 54.6% of the total valid votes counted. He defeated the SLPP candidate, Solomon Ekuma Berewa. The defeat of the SLPP in 2007 threw the party into a …