The Vice President Alhaji Chief Sam Sumana has presented the former President of Cape Verde, Antonio Manuel Gomes Monterio Mascaranhas to His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma at the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station. The former President was in Freetown to launch the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement in Sierra Leone. The event brought together national champions including President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was deputised by the Hon. VP Sam Sumana, the First Lady, cabinet ministers, government officials, civil society organisations, the international development community, representatives from the private sector and international friends and partners.
Welcoming the former President and his wife, His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma said scaling up nutrition will allow us to prioritise the issue of malnutrition in an effort to promote better nutritional practices, especially among children under five and women of childbearing age.
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