Author: Truth Media

Freetown, 8th December, 2025 – The President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Alhaji Manika Kamara, has pledged to strengthen collaboration between the media and government while safeguarding press freedom and independence.

Port Loko District, 8th December 2025- As the EU continues its nationwide Bus Tour on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), the team arrived in Mange Burreh, Burreh Chiefdom, Port Loko, where the heart of the conversation shifted from policy to lived experience. And at the center of that experience was Zainab Mansaray, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), standing boldly in her orange polo shirt that read, “My Voice Matters.”

Freetown, 8th December, 2025- In the riverine communities of Bonthe District, a quiet but powerful transformation is unfolding. For many women and young people, life is beginning to look different, more hopeful, more stable, and more dignified thanks to European Union-supported economic empowerment programmes that are reshaping livelihoods and challenging long-standing gender norms.

Freetown, 8th December 2025 – The Parliamentary Committee on Employment, Labour and Social Security has summoned the Chief Executive Officer of Angel Group Limited, John Paul Conteh, to answer allegations of non-payment of salaries, benefits, and compensation for work-related injury to former employee Ibrahim Kanu.

Freetown, 8th December 2025– As Sierra Leone commemorating the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the European Union Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Jacek Jankowski, has praised the government for strides made in protecting women and girls but expressed disappointment over the recently enacted Child Rights Act of 2025, which failed to ban and criminalize Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).