Tag: featured
Sierra Leone: Guinness Foreign Extra Stout brand launch (Event Photos)
Sierra Leone Brewery Limited joins the rest of the continent with the launch of the rebranded Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. Lovers of the internationally renowned black beer should look out for “fruit ...Sierra Leone: Two agribusiness CEOs to speak at Recipes for Success III (EVENT NEWS)
Swit Salone Dot Com in partnership with JobSearch present Recipes for Success, an opportunity for Sierra Leone’s business community to network, learn, and connect with leaders of industry, professionals, innovators, and purveyors of ...Have the Krios, Sierra Leone’s slave descendants lost their influence?
A recent post in the Christian Science Monitor suggests that the influence once exerted by Sierra Leone’s minority population of Krios has lessened as Freetown modernizes. The transition from ‘bod os’ to ...Sierra Leone: Freetown Kroo Bay slum floods for third year in a row
Heavy rains over the last 48 hours has destroyed the homes of residents of Kroo Bay, Sierra Leone’s largest slum community for the third year in a row. Speaking to SwitSalone, Mabinty ...Sierra Leone: Freetown floods, don’t blame it on the rain…again
The rainy season in Sierra Leone is officially from May to September every year. Yesterday the capital city Freetown flooded in what many are saying is the worst destruction and devastation they ...Sierra Leone: 200 maternal deaths a month even as CARMMA initiative turns 5
At a ceremony to mark the fifth year since the launch of the Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality (CARMMA) at the Makeni Government Hospital, First Lady Sia Koroma has asked ...Sierra Leone Fashion: Celebrating Madam Wokie
After she successfully participated in Fashion For Relief during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York in February 2015, Sierra Leonean Designer, Mary-Ann Kaikai, hosted an intimate dinner for her sponsors; Brussels Airlines, ...Sierra Leone: Ministry of Tourism leaves residents homeless after Aberdeen demolition
Late at night, with their belongings in the rain, they sat in front of a mosque, where they had sought refuge, but the temple was too small to accommodate all of them. ...Sierra Leone Court rules VP’s sacking as constitutional, civil society leaders disagree
In what is arguably the biggest constitutional litigation in post-conflict Sierra Leone, the Supreme Court today ruled that President Ernest Bai Koroma has the constitutional powers to sack his vice president Chief ...Sierra Leone: Mr & Mrs Maada Bio welcome baby girl
Julius Maada Bio, and his wife Fatima welcomed a new addition to their family with the birth of their daughter in London on Monday, 7th September 2015. The couples’ rep said that ...