Health

September 30, 2026

SLYDCL renews call for review of 2008 Drug Act in Policy Brief to New NDLEA boss

September 21, 2026

FROM CRIMINALIZATION TO RECOVERY:
Rethinking Sierra Leone’s 2008 National Drugs Control Act

August 31, 2026

The Impact of Drug Trafficking on Sierra Leone’s National Reputation and Youth Development

August 20, 2026

Sierra Leone elected VP of ECOWAS Risk Communication Network

August 3, 2026

Health

Delegates at the opening session of CPHIA 2023 in Lusaka, Zambia on November 27, 2023. Photo credit, CPHIA Communication Team

3rd Conference on public health in Africa opens with emphasis on need for vaccine independence

November 28, 2023

By Kemo Cham For Africa to better protect itself from preventable diseases, it must stop relying on outsiders for its...

Africa CDC Director General Jean Kaseye. Photo credit, kemo Cham, ManoReporters

CPHIA is positioning Africa on global health agenda – Africa CDC boss

November 27, 2023

By Kemo Cham in Lusaka The Director General of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr...

First Cohort of CPHIA Journalism Fellowship Programme. Webcapture. ManoReporters

ManoReporters editor among inaugural cohort of African Union funded health journalism fellowship

November 24, 2023

The editor of ManoReporters, Kemo Cham is among 40 journalists selected from across Africa as part of the inaugural African...

The line-up of confirmed speakers at the event. Photo credit, Africa CDC

Africa’s largest conference on public health to take place in Zambia

November 24, 2023

The third edition of the annual conference on public health in Africa is slated to commence next week in the...

Women protesting in Pujehun in the southern region of Sierra Leone on Saturday, November 11, 2023. The women called on the government to act and end importation and sale of drugs, which they say are killing their youths and leading to high crime rate in the district. Photo credit, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters

Sierra Leone: Protesting women threaten to go nude over drug ‘epidemic’

by Brima Sannoh in Pujehun

November 12, 2023

Protesting women angry about apparent inaction against drug abuse in Sierra Leone have threatened to take their action a step...

The delegation meets with the head of the UN Country Team, Babatunde Ahonsi in Freetown. Photo Credit, Pauline Loyce Ajello, WHO

Sierra Leone hosts joint WHO, Africa CDC Scoping Mission

November 11, 2023

By Kemo Cham A joint mission of World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Participants at the training. Photo credit, Juliana Kabba, ManoReporters

APHRC Trains Journalists on Sexual and Reproductive Health Reporting

November 1, 2023

By Juliana Kabba The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) on Monday 30th October conducted training for a group...

Kadiatu Savage, Director of Mental Health in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, launches the report on homelessness in Freetown

Social Workers Sierra Leone launches first report on homelessness in Freetown

October 31, 2023

By John Gboko Kamara & Kemo Cham A study on homelessness in Freetown has revealed that people living with disabilities...

Dr Heidi Larson, researcher and founder of the Global Listening Project. Photo credit, Kemo Cham, ManoReporters

Message of hope is best way to counter vaccine skepticism – Dr Heidi Larson

October 27, 2023

By Kemo Cham In the face of vaccine apathy, fuelled by false information spread online, the best response is a...

Chief Ismail Koroma, Chiefdom Speaker Small Bo Chiefdom, signing the by-law as District Medical Officer Dr Donald Grant looks on. Photo credit, James Flee, manoReporters

Kenema: Authorities introduce by-laws to curb rising maternal deaths