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Africa CDC assessment finds Sierra Leone’s Mpox response weak

May 13, 2025

Sierra Leone: Professional health workforce crucial to safeguard gains in maternal health – Victor Lansana Koroma

May 9, 2025

Sierra Leone invokes public health safety rules to control spiralling Mpox cases

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African Vaccination Week: Calls for young people to join efforts in promoting vaccination

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Evin Incir, Chief Observer, EU Elections Observation Mission to Sierra Leone 2023. Photo credit, ManoReporters

Sierra Leone 2023 elections: EU Observation Mission launched

May 24, 2023

The European Union’s Chief Observer for Sierra Leone’s 2023 general elections has called for a peaceful conduct of the electoral...

FOCUS 1000 launches violence free election campaign

May 22, 2023

President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election for his second and final five-year term in elections slated for June 24....

A group of children with an average age of 13-years working at a construction site [Kailahun market] in the eastern Kailahun District of Sierra Leone. Photo credit, Stephen Lansana.

Sierra Leone: Child Labour Hinders Children’s Education

May 19, 2023

By Stephen V. Lansana George Kamara works in “Dama pit”, an underground gold mining site in Salowa Village, Penguia Chiefdom...

Video Capture of WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivering a keynote speech at the MNHC2023 in Cape Town, South Africa, May 9, 2023. Photo credit, Kemo Cham, ManoReporters.

Over 60 countries risk missing out on maternal, newborn and stillborn SDGs targets – WHO chief warns

May 10, 2023

By Kemo Cham in Cape Town Over 60 countries are at risk of not meeting the maternal, newborn and stillborn...

Koki Agarwal (1st from right), makes a pre-conference presentation within the Cape Town International Convention Center on May 7, 2023. Photo credit, Kemo Cham, ManoReporters.

Despite “substantial” drop in global maternal deaths, more work needed to meet SDG targets – Expert

May 8, 2023

By Kemo Cham in Cape Town Even though there has been progress in reducing the number of maternal deaths worldwide...

Participants at a conference on cocoa production in Sierra Leone. Photo credit, Kemo Cham, ManoReporters

IFC convenes forum on Sierra Leone’s organic cocoa sector growth potential

April 9, 2023

A forum to discuss the growth potential of the cocoa sector in Sierra Leone concluded in the capital, Freetown, with...

Op-Ed: Where are they now? Three years after the lifting of the education ban against pregnant girls in Sierra Leone

March 31, 2023

By Faiza Mohamed and Hannah Yambasu When the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice ordered the...

President Bio addressing the delegates in Doha, Qatar, March 5, 2023. Photo Credit, State House Communications

LDC5 Conference: Bio calls for debt relief

March 6, 2023

By Kemo Cham in Doha Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has called on wealthy nations to write off the...

The Doha meeting is planned to restore LDC issues to the global agenda, after it was dislodged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo credit, Kemo Cham, ManoReporters

5th UN Conference on Least Developed Countries underway in Doha

March 4, 2023

By Kemo Cham in Doha The 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is underway in the...

Guinea Foreign Minister, Dr. Morissanda Kouyaté, shortly before boarding a Guinean aircraft on Tuesday, February 28. Photo credit, Presidency of Guinea.

Guinea sends plane to evacuate stranded nationals in Tunisia