The Daily IIJ

In its new report, At a Crossroads: Sierra Leone’s Free Health Care Policy, officially launched on Tuesday September 6, Amnesty International has revealed that pregnant women and girls in Sierra Leone continue to face serious challenges in accessing the drugs and medical care crucial for safe pregnancy and childbirth.

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Work would now start in earnest as President Ernest Koroma turned the sod for the construction of the Hilton Freetown Cape Sierra Hotel on Friday at a ceremony on the grounds of the Cape Sierra Hotel, Aberdeen.

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The 2011 edition of Measuring the Information Society featuring the latest International Telecommunication Union ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the level of advancement of ICTs in 152 countries worldwide comparing progress made between 2008 and 2010 was released Thursday September 15. The IDI which ranked countries according to their level of ICT access, use [...]

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According to a statement from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on yesterday, Chinese President Hu Jintao has appointed seven new ambassadors to foreign countries.

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The Ag. Commissioner-General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA), Ms. Haja Kallah-Kamara, yesterday called on Tax Consultants to evolve a form of union that could be a regulatory body  to better collaborate with the NRA in providing better services for taxpayers/tax clients, and increasing revenues for government.

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The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists hereby denounces in the strongest of terms the despicably rude behaviour of the Managing Director of Zenith Bank Sierra Leone, Oby Ikeh Unekwe to a journalist who simply called her to fact-check her story.

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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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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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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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