Sierra Leone In Headlines – allAfrica News

• Govt Partners IOM to Rescue Stranded Citizens in Sierra Leone
  [The Herald] The Government has roped in the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to facilitate the repatriation of over 20 Zimbabweans who are believed to be stranded in Sierra Leone.
• Lofa County - LDEA Arrests Sierra Leonean National With Narcotics
  [Liberian Investigator] Foya -- The Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), Lofa County detachment, has arrested a 30-year-old Sierra Leonean national for possession of narcotics, including Kush and other harmful substances, in Foya Statutory District.
• World Bank Supports Sierra Leone With $80 Million to Enhance Macroeconomic Stability and Resilience
  [World Bank] Freetown -- The World Bank today approved an $80 million financing package to support Sierra Leone's efforts to restore macro-fiscal stability and strengthen economic resilience. This financing includes a $60 million International Development Association (IDA) grant as budget support, and an additional $20 million for a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO), which […]
• Child Care in Africa - Sierra Leone's Early Years Experiences
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• Sole Survivor Found Clinging to Tyre Tubes After Shipwreck
  [Unicef] Statement by Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe
• 'No Outbreak of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever in Sierra Leone'
  [Liberian Observer] The Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan, has refuted reports of the presence of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
• Sierra Leone Begins Nationwide Vaccination Campaign Against Ebola
  [GAVI] Freetown/Sierra Leone -- Sierra Leone becomes the first country, among those most severely affected ten years ago by the West Africa Ebola outbreak, to launch nationwide preventive Ebola vaccination, targeting 20,000 frontline workers who will receive a single dose of Ebola vaccine The campaign comes one decade after the 2014 Ebola PHEIC - the […]
• Traffickers Leave 40 Locals Stranded in Sierra Leone
  [The Herald] More than 40 Zimbabweans are reportedly stranded in Sierra Leone after falling victim to a human trafficking syndicate, built around a local company working with a foreign outfit that lured them to the West African country with promises of lucrative jobs.
• Sierra Leone's China Relations Block Targeted Action Against Illegal Fishing
  [ISS] For nearly four decades, illegal foreign-owned fleets have devastated Sierra Leone's once sustainable fisheries industry.
• Liberia, S/Leone to Collaborate On Fiscal Matters
  [Liberian Observer] Liberia's Minister of Finance Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan and his Sierra Leonean counterpart Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura have committed to consolidate ties between their two ministries with the goal to strengthen partnership and peer learning in the areas of debt management, budgeting, treasury management, IFMIS implementation, tax policy and other key areas of public […]