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Africa's first heat officer is based in Freetown – 5 things that should be on her agenda

Eugenia Kargbo has an unusual job: she is the city of Freetown’s chief heat officer. Her role in Sierra Leone’s capital is the first of its kind in Africa. She has been tasked with raising public awareness about extreme heat, improving responses to heat waves, and collecting, analysing and visualising…

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Sierra Leone opposition party names runner-up for 2023 presidential vote

Sierra Leone's main opposition party has named Samura Kamara, the runner-up in the last presidential election, as its candidate for the next vote in June 2023.

Reuters

The Leader podcast: Girls exploited for sex to get water

How mentors are saving the lives of pregnant teens in Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone’s pregnant teens matched with mentors to save their lives

Around the world, 130 million girls are out of school. And following the Covid pandemic, it’s estimated that a further 11 million girls may not return to the classroom. With barriers like early marriage, pregnancy, violence and harassment and period poverty, millions of girls are fighting to learn. Let Girls…

Evening Standard

Fifa investigating former Sierra Leone Women’s coach over harassment claims

Fifa is investigating allegations of sexual harassment by the former coach of the Sierra Leone women’s national team

The Guardian - UK

Sierra Leone’s pregnant teens matched with mentors to save their lives

Sex for lunch money or just to jump the queue for water – teen pregnancy is common in Sierra Leone and death rates among pregnant girls are shockingly high. 2YoungLives is a mentoring scheme that aims to help girls survive childbirth and get back to education.

Evening Standard

Sierra Leone passes gender law reserving 30 percent of jobs for women

Sierra Leone has passed a law requiring public and private entities to reserve 30 percent of their jobs for women in a bid to tackle gender imbalances in a male-dominated society.

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Sierra Leone’s 'watershed' law aims to boost women in government

Sierra Leone's president has signed into law a bill guaranteeing women at least 30% of positions in government and the private sector, with equal pay - a policy hailed as a watershed moment for gender equality in the African country of 8 million.

Reuters

‘Patients were chained to walls and beds’: Freetown’s psychiatric hospital released from the past

The Sierra Leone capital’s colonial-era asylum has modernised, offering psychotherapy, yoga and basketball as well as drugs – and has thrown away its shackles

The Guardian - UK

10 things that changed my life with Sheku Bayoh's sister Kadi Johnson

Here's the 10 things which changed social justice campaigner Kadi Johnson's life.

The National (Scotland)

Finnish appeals court begins Liberia war crime hearing

A Finnish court of appeal began on Tuesday hearing an international war crime case in which a Sierra Leonean man is charged with murders, rapes and other atrocities during the Liberian civil war between 1999 and 2003, the court said.

Reuters

The good, bad, and the ugly: West Africa’s big issues in 2022

A recap of top issues in West Africa in 2022, including heated political campaigns and armed groups gaining ground.

Al Jazeera

Brazil vessel carrying cocaine worth over 150 million euros intercepted by French Navy

A Brazilian vessel carrying more than 4.6 tonnes of cocaine worth over 150 million euros ($157.4 million) was intercepted last week by the French Navy off the coast of Sierra Leone, the Europol international police agency said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Africa can be the global engine of economic growth and Britain must help

In the Sixties my late mother travelled from Sierra Leone to London to train as a nurse. Today, I am travelling to Kenya on my first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as Foreign Secretary.

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The Guardian - UK

Antonio Rüdiger: ‘Never count Germany out – anything can happen’

Defender tells Jacob Steinberg about ‘scary’ Brazil, leaving Chelsea for Real Madrid and donating his World Cup earnings to help children in Sierra Leone

The Guardian - UK

Lost and found: how a single clue led to the rediscovery of a crab not seen for 225 years

The label on a specimen of Afzelius’s crab, a species last seen in 1796, simply said ‘Sierra Leone’. Scientists headed to the country to see if they could find the land-dwelling crustacean

Daily Mirror

Where Steven Caulker is now after Tottenham start, Liverpool loan and international switch

A decade after making his one and only appearance for the England national team, Steven Caulker has gone in a different direction with his club and international football career

WEKU

A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda

Dr. Benjamin Black talks about Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola — the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa.

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UN chief says Ethiopia 'spiralling out of control', calls for end of fighting in Tigray

The United Nations sounds the alarm about the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia.Calls for a ceasefire go unheeded as government forces seize control of a key city. Also, a lockdown comes into force in two districts of Uganda as Ebola cases rise. We report from neighbouring Rwanda on the attempts to…

The Independent UK

Sierra Leone journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay dies at 85

Journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay, who covered Sierra Leone for The Associated Press for nearly four decades including the country’s brutal civil war and the Ebola epidemic that killed thousands there, has died

The Conversation

The scourge of sexual violence in West Africa, unveiled

When Zougba’s husband fled the jihadist violence crippling Burkina Faso, she soon found herself with her young son, daughter and other women on the road in a mission to join him. After 10km, four armed men surged into view from the side of the road. Her children bore witness as…

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Houghton vet who cared for dogs owned by homeless people will travel to West Africa to help other street dogs

Rebecca Dobinson has supported dogs owned by homeless people in the North East and volunteers as a vet for Street Paws. And now she is travelling to West Africa to ease the suffering of street dogs and join the fight against rabies

The Independent UK

The Tiafoe Effect: US tennis star has big impact in Africa

Sam Jalloh zig-zagged across West Africa last year coaching tennis to kids

Daily Mirror

7 of the Queen's milestone tours and visits as she travelled the world

The Queen was a very busy traveller during her time on the throne, and visited countries across the world including Cyprus, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Canada and Gambia

Los Angeles Times

Helene Elliott: ‘We got some more’: Frances Tiafoe’s stunning US Open run isn’t over yet

NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe’s improbably wonderful American dream reached new heights on Wednesday, when the son of immigrants from Sierra Leone advanced to the semifinals of the US Open with a dynamic and decisive victory over Andrey Rublev of Russia. He celebrated with screams of pure joy, which were…

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