State House, Freetown, Monday 30 January 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has officially launched the country’s first securitised multi-purpose identification card and identification verification system, saying that civil registration and vital statistics, CRVS, data is critical for development planning and policymaking. He also thanked development partners…

Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, 26 January 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has declared agricultural transformation as a priority for his second term in office and, therefore, called on development partners at the ongoing Dakar 2 Summit to support his country’s food and agriculture delivery compact. In his…

Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio was at the opening ceremony of the second edition of the Dakar Summit on agriculture and agribusiness being held at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Centre in Diamniadio, a part of the collective development programme of…

Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday 24 January 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio and entourage have arrived in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, for the Dakar 2 Summit on ‘Feeding Africa: Food Sovereignty and Resilience aims to turn advocacy efforts into concrete action’. This Summit, which holds at the…

Gardorhun Town, Moyamba District, Sunday 22 January 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has commissioned the Nguala Agribusiness Development Company Industrial Poultry Feed Mill and led the First Lady’s efforts at distributing milling machines to women farmers’ groups in Moyamba District. The President, who is on a…

Kaiyamba Chiefdom, Moyamba Town, Friday 20 January 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio is on a four-day tour of Bradford, Rotifunk, Bauya, and Moyamba town in the Moyamba District, one of the most ethnically diverse districts in Sierra Leone, where stakeholders assured him of a resounding victory…

Foreign Service Academy, Freetown, Thursday 19 January 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has signed into law the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Bill 2022, now GEWE Act 2022, and cited some transformative government reforms and gender policies in the last four and half years of his…