President Julius Maada Bio has bade farewell to the world’s largest hospital ship, Mercy Ships, praised its crew members and commended them for the transformative impact on Sierra Leone’s Health Care System.
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), locally known as Bondo, remains one of Sierra Leone’s most entrenched cultural practices, yet no law explicitly criminalizes it. Activists, lawyers, and the Human Rights Commission argue that this silence leaves women and girls vulnerable to what they describe as a form of violence.
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The Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) has urged the Government of Sierra Leone to accelerate delivery on key commitments under the Medium‑Term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2024–2030, warning that 21 out of 100 national targets remain stalled, abandoned, or show no progress.
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The Government of Sierra Leone has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SO.AFRI.LOGE, a Malian housing developer, is to construct 22,000 social housing units for civil servants. The agreement, signed in Dakar by the Ministries of Public Administration and Political Affairs (MoPAPA) and Lands, Housing and Country Planning (MLHCP), establishes a framework for planning, financing, and implementing affordable housing with a mortgage mechanism tailored to public servants.
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The second batch of 266 Sierra Leonean home-based Hajj pilgrims has safely arrived at the Freetown International Airport in Lungi, at 7:11 Sierra Leone time on Monday morning, 8 June 2026, after a successful 1447H/2026 Hajj in Makkah.
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