The Daily IIJ

UK Minister for International Development, Stephen O’Brien MP,  has arrived Sierra Leone Friday July 30 on a working visit as the first cabinet member of the newly-constituted British coalition government to be in the West African country.

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DESPITE CALCULATED attempts by government and the security agencies to rid the country of various degrees of fraudulent activities especially internet scam, latest intelligence gathered by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service reveal that, ‘Facebook’, which has crept deep into the marrows of Ghanaians, is being used to rob people of [...]

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Tigers amaze tourists and scare villagers in Nepal, but maybe the incense burned and the diyos lit for the tiger god Bag Bhairav are working. The tiger population in Nepal has increased this year, according to a recent data released by the government on the occasion of the first “Tiger Conservation Day.” There are total [...]

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In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that what could be the greatest single impact of climate change is human migration with millions of people to be displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption.

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Anti-corruption campaigner and Member of Parliament (MP) for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, P.C. Appiah-Ofori has kicked against a loan facility for the purchase of 50 additional buses to enhance the operations of the Metro Mass Transport (MMT) Limited.

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“Public corruption is perceived to be high in The Gambia as the country is ranked 106 of 180 nations in Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perception Index,” The Inter- Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) has said in its 2009 report. GIABA said The Gambia has signed the African Union Convention on [...]

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The Gambia leader Yahya Jammeh has called GSM Company, QCell, and ‘the cheapest GSM Company in the country’ at the company’s inaugural ceremony over the weekend. The President’s claim came amidst fierce competition in the GSM industry of The Gambia, when every company is claiming to be the cheapest. “Today without doubt QCell is the [...]

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The National Commission of Privatization NCP has today called for Expressions Of Interest for the management of the Sierra Leone Telecommunications Company Limited (Sierratel).

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For several years now, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has been omitting Sierra Leone, by commission, from the list of countries whose progress at becoming information societies are being monitored. Though no formal reason was given, the exclusion could be attributed to the decade-long civil war wherein facilities to guarantee functional information and communication technology [...]

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Before now, achieving food security has been a daunting task for many governments and people in Africa. The phenomenon is not unique to Sierra Leone. Though Sierra Leone’s economy is heavily dependent on its natural resources and is therefore vulnerable to climate change, an additional impact of climate change may likely worsened the situation.

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