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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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New York, United States – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has said that access to justice is central to the development of Sierra Leone while making his keynote address at the ‘Justice 2030: Time for Action’ high-level event in New York. Addressing lawyers, diplomats, activists and members of Open…
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As world leaders have been gathering in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly, the memory of the late Kofi Annan looms large in our minds. Despite Annan’s achievement in breaking the glass ceiling for black Africans and becoming the first black African to become the secretary general of the…
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New York, United States Monday 1 October 2018 – Government of Sierra Leone, represented by the Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr Alpha Tejan Wurie, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Varian Medical Systems to establish the first radiotherapy centre in Sierra Leone. The agreement, which was signed on…
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