Freetown, 24th November, 2025- Sierra Leone’s Cabinet has formally endorsed the FY2026 Budget and the 2026 Finance Bill, paving the way for their submission to Parliament. The decision was reached during a special Cabinet meeting, chaired by His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio.
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Freetown, 24th November 2025- Poverty in Sierra Leone is rising again, with new figures from the World Bank projecting that nearly 60% of the population, 59.9%, could be living below the national poverty line in 2024. That’s a sharp increase from 57.8% in 2023, and a troubling return to the peak levels recorded during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Freetown, 24th November 2025- Sierra Leone’s President and Chair of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, Julius Maada Bio, has placed Africa’s mineral wealth at the heart of global economic discussions, urging G20 leaders to adopt a new framework that ensures fairness and value addition in the clean-energy transition.
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Kambia District, 24th November 2025- The Kambia Secondary School (KISS) was significantly hit this morning by a fire that burned down six staff rooms and three classrooms. Two old boys were responding to treatment after being suffocated while attempting to put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher.
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Representatives from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), which works to commemorate those who died in the two world wars, marked Remembrance Day this year at the Freetown Memorial in Sierra Leone on November 9.
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