The Daily IIJ

  THE ACTING Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Yaw Akrasi-Sarpong has identified nightclubs, discotheques, bars and music festivals as grass root areas where messages against illicit drug trafficking in the country can be preached.

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The incidence of rural-urban migration is increasing the burden of responsibility on women and farming is becoming feminized as males and youth travels leave the production systems in the hands of women, the Vice President and Minister of Women’s Affairs of The Gambia has said. This she said has implications for household food security and [...]

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PDOIS favours the creation of a transitional administration after the APRC government that would last for a period of 2 to 5 years, the Secretary General of the party ‘People for Democratic Independence and Socialism’ said on Saturday. Mr. Halifa Sallah was speaking at a press conference at the Peoples’ Centre in Churchill’s Town on [...]

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By Golden Maunganidze A German couple based in Berlin has expressed its commitment to assist Zimbabwean orphans based in Masvingo province by paying their school fees, providing food, clothes, medicine and various essentials to their families among other things. Masvingo city is Zimbabwe’s oldest urban settlement and is 300 kilometers south of Harare. In an [...]

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Under its IDA pilot crisis response window, the World Bank has approved a US$7 million credit as supplementary financing to the government of Sierra Leone in support of the country’s 3rd governance reform and growth credit. The credit is aimed at helping to implement Sierra Leone’s poverty reduction strategy in the context of a multi-donor [...]

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Over four hundred children from Jendema, Sulima, Fairo, Koijeh and other villages along the Sierra Leone-Liberia border in Sorogbema, Pujehun district converged at the RADA hall in Jendema on June 16 to commemorate this year’s Day of the African Child.

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The old King George’s Home for the Aged is said to be set for a major facelift when it is finally relocated from its current noisy, congested and highly dangerous surrounding near the Kissy Oil Refinery to a more conducive, secure and spacious environment.

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The Chambers of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, in collaboration with the Justice Sector Coordination Office (JSCO), will today conclude a two-day workshop on the operations of the Law Officers’ Department at the Hotel Barmoi, Aberdeen, Freetown.

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President Ernest Bai Koroma has urged the Ombudsman, Justice Edmund Cowan, together with other officials in his office, to change people’s perceptions about their office by embarking on a mass sensitization on its role and importance in the democratic process.

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The ministry of finance and economic development has revealed that Sierra Leone will receive the first tranche of a three-year $45 million International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan in July to boost the nation’s economy.

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