By Kemo Cham
The health NGO, FOCUS 1000, has inaugurated the national chapter of its community engagement arm - Kombra Network.
The Kombra Network, which is a coalition of religious leaders, market women, traditional healers, the media and civil society, is a grassroots organization that advocates for health service delivery and uptake.
By Kemo Cham
Amidst growing public concern over the state of preparedness of Sierra Leone for any spillover of the ongoing Coronavirus epidemic in China, the Ministry of Health has insisted that there is no cause for alarm at the moment.
An official told Politico that while the public concern was understandable, the government couldn’t do any more than it is doing at the moment given the prevailing circumstance.
By Hajaratu Kalokoh
The Sierra Leone Government’s desire to boost technical and skills education is in jeopardy over lack of funding.
Just about a year after the inauguration of the first of a series of technical and vocational institutions erected across the country, reports have emerged that lecturers hired to provide the training have been going without pay.
By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo
Search for Common Ground, an accountability campaign group, has held a townhall meeting in constituency 88 in Bo, to evaluate the work of its Member of Parliament (MP), Kekura Vandy.
The meeting was designed as follow up on promises Hon. Vandi made as part of debates in town hall meetings during campaigns for the parliamentary elections in 2018.
SCG conducted a series of debates for contestants in many constituencies across the country.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The father of a 13-year-old deaf and mute girl who was allegedly raped at Kossoh Town last year has in an open letter appealed for government intervention to prevent the case from dying.
The girl who was raped almost six months ago is still struggling to adjust in her community and in school.
By Francis H. Murray
The West African Health Organization (WAHO) and it partners have concluded a two-day conference on adequate health financing and universal health care in Freetown.
The joint meeting of the Parliamentarian National Implementation Monitoring Committees (NMC) and the Network of Champions for Adequate Health Financing and Demographic Dividend (NOCAHF-DD) in West Africa was convened from February 27 to 28 at the Bintumani Hotel.
By Francis H. Murray
Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio, has launched the first phase of the country’s National Social Safety Net Project in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone.
The project costing US$30 million is funded by the World Bank. And government officials say it is geared towards tackling poverty, fighting inequality and strengthening livelihoods of the beneficiaries through job creation schemes for the poorest, and skills development initiatives and micro-enterprise schemes of for Sierra Leoneans generally.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
