May 20, 2023
Sierra Leone: Know Your Presidential Candidate
This column is dedicated to profile all thirteen presidential candidates that would participate in the June Presidential Elections. This is a deliberate attempt by Concord Times to… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Only 41 Percent of Young People Know About the PR System - NaCCED)
Chairman of the National Council for Civic Education and Development (NaCCED) Kalilu Ibrahim Totangi, has stated that a survey conducted by his institution has revealed that only… Read more »
Sierra Leone: EU, Germany Support ECSL to Sensitize Citizens, Political Parties On PR System
With the financial and technical support of the European Union and Germany, the ECSL has launched a comprehensive nation-wide sensitization campaign on the Proportional… Read more »
Sierra Leone: SLPU-U.S. Supports Salone's Education Sector
The Sierra Leone Progressive Union (SLPU) comprises a group of Sierra Leoneans from across the country that are based in the United States of America providing educational supports… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Reining Mahawa Allieu Into Order
Based on some of her most recent discourteous, out rightly abrasive propensity to be spouting incendiary, hateful and vitriolic utterances against the leadership of the All… Read more »
Sierra Leone: ILO, Partners Sign 'Decent Job Creation' Project in 5 Districts
The International Labor Organization (ILO) has signed partnership agreement with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDA), APEX Bank, Local Content Agency and… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Africell Supports SLAJ to Combat Disinformation and Misinformation
The leading telecommunications operator in Sierra Leone, Africell Mobile Compsny has on Tuesday 16th May 2023, donated Mifi's to the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists to help… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Meet Amy Pope - First Ever Female Director General of IOM Elect
On Monday 15 May 2023, the Member States of the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Migration Agency, elected Ms. Amy E. Pope as its next Director General… Read more »
Sierra Leone: NP-SL Hands Over Refurbished Squash Court to FBC
One of Sierra Leone's leading petroleum company (NP-SL) has renovated and handed over Fourah Bay College's Squash Court. NP handed the facility to the College last week at the… Read more »
Sierra Leone: EU Re-Affirms Commitment to Continue Supporting Sierra Leone
As I said last year on the occasion of Europe Day, I can ensure you that the European Union will continue to stand with the Government, with the Opposition, with the Parliament,… Read more »
Sierra Leone: 2023 Elections - UNPP Vows to Solve Economic Quagmire
National Chairman and Leader of the United National People's Party (UNPP), one of Sierra Leone's oldest political parties, has told this medium that they are a better political… Read more »
May 10, 2023
Sierra Leone: SLMA - Possible Flooding in Sierra Leone This Year
The Sierra Leone Metrological Agency (SLMet) has in a press release warned that citizens should brace themselves for heavy downpour of rains that might lead to flooding this year. Read more »
Sierra Leone: Education Ministry Explains Why Over 7,000 Left Out On WASSCE Exam
The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education has revealed that the reason why over 7,000 students were left out on the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Orange Re-Echoes Commitment to Protecting the Environment
Orange Telecommunication Sierra Leone has re-echoed its commitment to protecting the environment from hazardous human activities that lead to climate change and make it a safe… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Njala University Confers Honorary Doctor of Science Degree On Professor Alpha Tejan Wurie
Njala University Court has on Thursday, 4th May 2023, awarded Sierra Leone's Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Professor Alpha Tejan Wurie, an honorary Doctor of Science… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Woman Gets 30 Years Imprisonment for Killing Her Daughter
On Friday, May 5, during the closing of January criminal session at the High Court presided over by Justice John Bosco Alieu, twenty-two years old Tenneh Brima was sentenced to 30… Read more »
Africa: Livelihoods of 3 Billion People Mostly in Coastal Developing Countries Are At Stake - UNCTAD Report
A new UN Trade and Development body UNCTAD's Trade and Environment Review 2023, published on Monday, says the livelihoods of 3 billion people in coastal developing countries who… Read more »
Sierra Leone: UN Family Mourns Former Resident Coordinator, Sunil Saigal,
"It is with great sadness that we received the news of the passing of my predecessor, the former UN Resident Coordinator (RC) to Sierra Leone, Mr. Sunil Saigal," a statement from… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Murderer Gets 30 Years Imprisonment
Thirty-five year-old murderer, Juana Kelfala, was last Friday sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by Justice John Bosco Alieu presiding at the Freetown High Court for killing Tamba… Read more »
Sierra Leone: 2023 Elections - Four Other Political Parties Sail Through Presidential Nomination
The Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) on May 5 and 6 successfully endorsed the nomination of four presidential candidates and their running mates. Read more »
Sierra Leone: Ahead of June 24 Elections - SSDF Educates Youth On Non-Violence, Drug, Substance Abuse
Ahead of the June 24 elections, the Sport for Sustainable Development Foundation (SSDF) has engage youth groups and community youth leaders from all walks of life in order to… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Trade Ministry Hang Heads to Improve Vegetal Oil, Processed Food Products Chains
The Ministry of Trade and Industry, through its Strengthening Regional Value Chains and Market Access in the ECOWAS Region, yesterday Monday, May 8, held a stakeholders… Read more »
May 05, 2023
Sierra Leone: President Bio Launches National Payment Switch
President Julius Maada Bio, yesterday Wednesday May 3, officially launched the National Payment Switch. The switch is a gateway system to payment solutions in Sierra Leone. Read more »
Sierra Leone: Njala University Inslacs Holds a Week Celebration
The Institute of Languages and Cultural Studies has on Thursday, 27th April 2023 concluded its four-day celebration dubbed INSLACS week at the Great Hall of Towama Location, Bo… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Fish Habour Project At Black Johnson - Community People Share Concerns With HRCSl
In May 2021, some residents of the Black Johnson Community in the western area rural were in contention with the government's bid for a proposed Fish Habour to be constructed with… Read more »