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Emmanuel Alieu Mansaray is a 25-year-old self-taught Sierra Leonean innovator and engineer who built the first-ever locally made solar-powered car in Sierra Leone.
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Constance Cummings-John was a Sierra Leonean educationist and politician in both pre and post-colonial Sierra Leone who campaigned for women’s rights in Sierra Leone and the continent of Africa at large. She was born in 1918 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, into the elite Krio Horton family.
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One of the most talented female musicians and fast-rising talent from Sierra Leone, Jaaje Horace has joined the fight against drug abuse with her first debut single titled ‘Chronic’.
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Mamusu Dumbuya, a school-going pupil at that time, was 16 years old when she lost 21 of her family members to the Ebola epidemic including her parents and was left with three young kids to take care of; her biological younger brother, cousin, and adopted sister.
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Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has lined up three warm-up matches for its senior national team in a bid to keep the team in shape for the 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
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The Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone has on Monday 14th March 2023 released a press statement on the proclamation of date for the Presidential Election in 2023.
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Sierra Dream, a young developmental organization founded by Mohamed Sahr Fofanah is set to inaugurate its maiden Western Rural Area District Inter-Secondary School Debate Championship with the theme “Engaging Pupils on Constructive Dialogue For Social Cohesion.”
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Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura is a Sierra Leonean author, academic administrator, researcher, and scientist. He is arguably one of the world’s most educated men.
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With support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) donates 77 solar-powered refrigerators to the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation to “strengthen the cold chain system of the country’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) and reduce infant and under-five mortality rates in Sierra Leone.”
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According to data by Statistics Sierra Leone, the cost of food in Sierra Leone increased 17.10 percent in June of 2021 over the same month in the previous year. In 2017, the average inflation rate in Sierra Leone amounted to about 18.22 percent compared to the previous year. This year it has reached the highest rate in ten years! Also, Sierra Leone is currently facing its worst food crisis in a decade, a World Food Program report indicates.
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