State House, Freetown, Wednesday 24 October 2018 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has met the Assistant Minister for International Organisations of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yaqub Yousif Alhosani, at State House where they discussed plans to strengthen bilateral ties.   The envoy further stated that the visit…

State House, Freetown, Friday 19 October 2018 – The German Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Horst Gruner, and the new Gambian High Commissioner, Ebraima Manneh, have presented their credentials to His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio during a brief ceremony at State House. Ambassador Gruner said it was a pleasure handing…

State House, Freetown, Friday 19 October 2018 – The Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) has paid a courtesy call to State House and updated His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio on its recent activities around promoting democracy and good governance in Sierra Leone. Executive Director for the right-based research think…

Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday 14 October 2018 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has returned on Saturday 13 October from Equatorial Guinea’s capital, Malabo, where he joined President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to celebrate 50 years of the country’s independence on October 12. The former Spanish colony, on the…

Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday 10 October 2018 – Newly approved Ambassadors and High Commissioners have taken leave of His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio at State House, in readiness to take up their respective assignments abroad. Presenting the diplomats to the President, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr…

State House, Freetown, Tuesday 9 October 2018 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has joined families and others to mourn the death of eight military officers and their children killed in a gruesome road accident in Freetown on Monday. The inter-faith funeral service, which took place at the Hockey…

State House, Freetown, Tuesday 9 October 2018 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has inaugurated new members nominated on the University Court of Sierra Leone at a brief ceremony on Fourah Bay College campus, established in 1827 as the first western-style university in West Africa. With a three-year mandate, the Court is the highest…

Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday 6 October 2018 – President Bio and First Lady, Fatima Bio, have visited 34 Military, Connaught and Emergency Hospitals in West and Central Freetown to sympathise with victims of two fatal road crashes involving military and police personnel. The visit started at the military-run hospital on…

New York, United States, Wednesday 3 October 2018 – Her Excellency Mrs Fatima Bio, First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, has told young Africans that when women are empowered in Africa then Africa will be empowered. She made this statement during an inspiring valedictory speech at the United…