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FGM: In Sierra Leone, child rights activists feel betrayed by President

October 25, 2025

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Health Alert hosts District Finance Officers on health budget

October 21, 2025

SLYDCL sensitizes drug users in commemoration of World Mental Health Day (VIDEO)

October 19, 2025

Sierra Leone Kush Crisis: SLYDCL convenes stakeholders’ engagement

October 19, 2025

Kush: Sierra Leone’s Silent Genocide — A Call to Urgent, United Action

October 16, 2025

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A presentation on UHC after the opening session. Photo credit, Kemo Cham, ManoReporters

African faith based organizations commit to more engagement to fast track attainment of Universal Health Coverage

May 13, 2024

By Kemo Cham Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) in Africa have vowed to strengthen engagement with governments to ensure political leadership...

Deputy Minister of Health 1, Charles Senesie, administers the vaccine on a child at the official launching ceremony on Friday, May 10, 2024.

MRU countries launch synchronized polio vaccination campaign

May 11, 2024

By Kemo Cham Sierra Leone and its Mano River Union (MRU) neighbours have launched a coordinated mass vaccination campaign to...

Dr. Desmond Maada Kangbai, Program Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. Photo credit, Mohamed Sahr, ManoReporters.

Sierra Leone: New Malaria vaccine to be rolled out

April 25, 2024

By Mohamed Sahr Sierra Leone is set to rollout the newly approved malaria vaccine as part of commemoration of this...

First Lady Fatima Bio speaks at an event marking the discharge of 40 former drug addictions on Saturday, April 16. Photo credit, Morrie Koroma, ManoReporters

Drug war: First Lady says people in government undermining her husband

April 25, 2024

By Kemo Cham First Lady Fatima Bio has accused unnamed powerful people within her husband’s administration of undermining his efforts...

Sierra Leoneans should decide on the faith of FGM – EU officials

April 22, 2024

German Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Jens Kraus-Masse, has says while Germany believes that all harmful cultural practices should be stopped,...

Dr Sulaiman Lakoh speaks during the inception meeting. Photo credit, ManoReporters

Malaria: Pujehun to host study on delayed care-seeking for febrile illnesses

April 21, 2024

By Cheryl Alafia Thomas Sustainable Health Systems Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and other partners, has...

Sierra Leonean innovator’s AI-powered robotic offers solution to environmental compliance

April 18, 2024

By Kemo Cham Abdul and his co-founder building the robot that represented Sierra Leone at the 2023 World Robotics Competition...

A screen grab of Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio aaddressing the nation on the drug epidemic facing the country, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. He declared a National Emergency on Drug and Substance Abuse. Phot credit, Kemo Cham, ManoReporters.

Sierra Leone: President Bio declares National Emergency on drug and substance abuse

April 4, 2024

By Kemo Cham Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has declared a National Emergency on drug and substance abuse, vowing...

Helen Clark, Board Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) and former Prime Minister of New Zealand; and Martin Chungong, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

PMNCH and IPU leadership on repeal of law banning FGM in The Gambia

April 3, 2024

By Helen Clark and Martin Chungong As the world’s leading alliance committed to the health and well-being of women, children...

Dr. Joshua Coker, a Consultant Nephrologist at Connaught. Photo credit, Mohamed Sahr, ManoReporters.

Experts lament high burden of kidney diseases in Sierra Leone