Tag: Sierra Leone
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Bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-leader jailed over failed coup
Bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-leader jailed over failed coup A former bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma has been found guilty of treason and sentenced alongside 10 others over a failed coup last year. Amadu Koita Makalo, who is also a former soldier, was sentenced to 182 years in prison on charges of…
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Sierra Leone enacts bill to outlaw child marriage
President Julius Maada Bio signed a measure banning child marriage in Sierra Leone, where one-third of Sierra Leonean girls are married before reaching 18 years old. The health ministry says early marriages increase maternal mortality due to the physical dangers of childbearing at such young ages. Under the new rule, a male who marries a…
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Two African ministers who studied together in the Soviet Union meet at #SPIEF2024 decades later
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Mattai, and Guinea-Bissau’s Minister of Natural Resources, Malam Sambu, greeted each other warmly before a session, which brought a smile to the faces of journalists and other participants of the discussion. “I studied in the Soviet Union, in Krivoy Rog from 1986 to 1992,” Mattai told…
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Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister Deepens Bilateral Relations with Russian Federation
During his one-day working visit to Moscow, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prof. David J. Francis together with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a ‘Visa-free Movement’ of holders of both Diplomatic and Service passports to facilitate the movement of people between the two countries.…
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Conseil Café-Cacao declares war on cocoa operators with Lebanese ties
Yves Koné, the head of the cocoa industry watchdog, has suspended the operations of several cooperatives that are suspected of buying and reselling beans above the regulated price. The Conseil Café-Cacao (CCC), which is run by Yves Brahima Koné, has removed sales and purchase codes from some forty cocoa cooperatives suspected of secretly working with operators belonging to…
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“We are not given the free will to make decisions on our own mineral resources”: Sierra Leone’s first lady criticizes neocolonialism
🇸🇱 “We are not given the free will to make decisions on our own mineral resources”: Sierra Leone’s first lady criticizes neocolonialism “There’s always a big brother who decides. And when you fight and say “no, we are not going to do this” they use the system to stop you. It’s either they set you…
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Sierra Leone declares emergency over drug abuse
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone has declared a national emergency after increased cases of substance abuse. President Julius Maada Bio’s decree Thursday follows an explosive rise in the use of a synthetic drug known as Kush. The drug which is highly addictive is a mix of marijuana, tentanyl and tramadol, a powerful pain killer. Kush has been…
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Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries
Internet connectivity in several African countries was disrupted today, March 14, 2024. Beginning at approximately 05:00 UTC, west and central African countries were most impacted, as was South Africa. Based on published reports and social media posts from impacted network providers, the disruption is believed to be due to multiple undersea cable failures in the…
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It’s like smoking poison’: Sierra Leone’s youth battle addiction to a mystery drug
One thing is certain in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, says 18-year-old Abdullah: you are never far from a kush dealer. Some call its impact the “kush devil”. For Abdullah, addiction resulted in him dropping out of school and begging on the street. Now he is staying at the City of Rest Rehabilitation Centre, one of…
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