Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio this week signed a new law that will ban child marriage in the West African nation, a move aimed at tackling the practice in a country where hundreds of thousands of girls marry before turning 18, Agence France-Presse reported. The...
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Sierra Leone’s government is introducing buses to the country’s busy capital of Freetown, in an effort to provide residents with a public transport system and address the transport crisis, Africanews reported. Freetown has up to now mainly relied on an informal network of road transport, which...
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A court in Sierra Leone charged former President Ernest Bai Koroma and 12 others – including former police and correctional officers and a member of Koroma’s security detail – with treason, and other offenses for Koroma, over their alleged involvement in an attempted coup in...
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Sierra Leone reduced its 24-hour curfew to a night-time lockdown Monday, a day after gunmen attacked a number of military barracks and prisons, prompting concerns of a potential coup in the West African nation, the BBC reported. On Sunday, unknown gunmen tried to break into the...
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Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio was sworn in Tuesday, shortly after electoral officials confirmed his victory in Saturday’s general elections amid protests from the opposition, CNN reported. The country’s election commission said Bio won more than 56 percent of the vote, while his rival Samura...
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Samura Kamara, the leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) party and the main opposition candidate in Sierra Leone’s presidential election on June 24, recently called for every member of the small West African nation’s electoral commission to resign, so that international observers could perform...
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Sierra Leone passed a law that would require public and private entities to allocate 30 percent of their jobs to women, a move aimed at tackling the gender imbalance in the West African nation, Radio France Internationale reported. The new Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Act...
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Hundreds of protesters clashed with security forces in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown this week, in a deadly protest over rising inflation and mounting costs of living in one of Africa’s poorest countries, CNN reported. Anti-government demonstrators had taken to the streets to lament the country’s...
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