Category: Features

12 Dead After Koidu Holdings Sacks 900 Workers

Freetown, 20th October 2025- In June 2024, workers at Koidu Holdings raised serious concerns about long-standing injustices ranging from poor salary exchange rates, excessive working hours, lack of proper toilet facilities, to unsafe drinking water. Despite multiple interventions by the Koidu United Mines Workers Union and the Sierra Leonean government to resolve the issues peacefully, no improvement was made. Instead, nearly 1,000 Sierra Leonean workers, many with over a decade or two of service were laid off without prior notice.

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Hidden Toll of Artisanal Mining

Kono District, Sierra Leone, 20th October 2025- Every morning in Kumao Village, Nimikor Chiefdom, men, women, and even children take the long walk to the mining pits. Some carry shovels others, pickaxes, and some go with nothing but empty pans and hope. For many, artisanal mining is the only way to put food on the table, but it comes at a deadly cost.

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Unprotected and Underpaid: Journalists Speak Up

Freetown, 16th October 2025- The media landscape has long played a pivotal role in speaking truth to power and mirroring the realities of society, shaping the socio-economic and political fabric of Sierra Leone in the process. Yet, the sector continues to wrestle with compliance challenges, particularly within the broader economic framework it seeks to reform. The journalists at the heart of this transformation remain under-resourced, even as the media space records notable strides.

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