Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Celebrates Women, Promises Affirmative Action Bill 2021

Presidential Lodge, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday 8 March 2021 – His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has announced on Twitter that apart from celebrating International Women’s Day 2021 he will also engage Parliament on the Affirmative Action Bill this year. “Today, I reflect on the challenges we’ve faced and…

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Justice Miatta Maria Samba Subscribes to the Oath of Office as Supreme Court Judge of the Republic of Sierra Leone

State House, Freetown, Tuesday 2 March 2021 – Justice Miatta Maria Samba was today sworn in as Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone following her appointment by His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio and approval in Parliament on 23 February 2021. In her statement after the official…

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UN Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel Bids farewell to Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio

Presidential Lodge, Freetown, Monday 1 March 2021 – The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, and head of UNOWAS, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has taken formal leave of His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio. The Ghanaian-born career diplomat and international civil servant…

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Chinese Ambassador Hu Zhangliang Presents COVID-19 Vaccines to Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio

Presidential Lodge, Freetown, Monday 1 March 2021 – Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E. Hu Zhangliang, has presented 200,000 doses of the SinoPharm COVID-19 Vaccine to His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio on behalf of the President and People’s Republic of China.  The donated items, which arrived in the…

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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Visits Youth Skills Development in Construction Work at Bandajuma-Liberia Border, Applauds EU and Local Partners

Malema 2, Pujehun District, Southern Province, Saturday 20 February 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has visited a youth skills training programme targeting about 1,540 young people learning road construction at the Bandajuma-Liberia border road project funded by the European Union, EU. He thanked partners for this…

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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Continues His Thank-You-Tour, Proposes Sulima as a Centre of Tourism

Sulima, Pujehun District, Southern Province, Saturday 20 February 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has visited Sulima to thank its people for supporting him become the president and proposed that the coastal town become a centre of tourism, some 406 kilometres from the capital city, Freetown.   …

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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Makes Major Announcements in Pujehun, Catalogues Successes in Education, Health, Agriculture and Infrastructure

Pujehun, Southern Province, Friday 19 February 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has said in 18 months his government will build and furnish a Junior and Senior Secondary School of Excellence exclusively for girls.  “It will cater for 300 pupils…It will be a full boarding school with…

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Sierra Leone, Guinea Sign Communique, Commit to Mutual Security, Public Health and Socio-Economic Interests

Conakry, Republic of Guinea, Tuesday 16 February 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has concluded his 2-day working visit to Conakry where the two countries committed to reopening on Thursday 18 Feb the land border that was closed since early last year due to COVID-19.  The communique…

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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Arrives in Conakry for Talks Tomorrow with Guinea’s President Alpha Conde

Conakry, Republic of Guinea, Monday 15 February 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio today arrived in the Guinean capital, Conakry, for talks tomorrow with President Alpha Conde who extended an invitation last week. The Sierra Leonean delegation was received this evening at the Gbessia International Airport by…

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