Education and Health

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: Mwanga wa Elimu has announced the 12 leaders who make up its founding cohort of Luminaries. Drawn from the African continent, the group comprises government ministries, regional education bodies, technology developers, research organisations, and educators. Together, they form the founding coalition of the movement [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2026: Times Higher Education (THE) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at supporting higher education institutions across the Commonwealth through trusted data, insight, and collaboration. The partnership brings together THE’s global data and higher education solutions with ACU’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2026: The Bluemind Foundation announces that its Founder and President, Marie-Alix De Putter, has been selected to join the Praxis Africa Accelerator, an internationally recognized ecosystem supporting founders committed to building organizations that change systems, not just outcomes. Praxis brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2026: As Africa enters a decisive decade in the fight against malaria, a new generation of African scientists is shaping the future of malaria research, innovation, and public health leadership. They are driven by personal experience, community connection, and the urgent reality of a preventable [Read More]

Saidu Bangura & Donald Doherty: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2026: Fourah Bay College (FBC), celebrates today, February 18, 2026, one hundred and ninety-nine (199) years of existence as the first Western-modelled tertiary institution in West Africa. Many Sierra Leonean academics, alumni and non-alumni of the University of Sierra Leone [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: Against a backdrop of stalled progress, declining international funding, and intensifying threats, African Heads of State and Government yesterday 14th February 2026, issued a unified call for a new era of malaria financing at the 39th African Union Summit in Ethiopia. The African Union [Read More]

Donald Doherty & Saidu Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 February 2026: When Sierra Leone launched the Free Quality School Education (FQSE) in 2018, it was more than a policy announcement. It was a moral declaration, described as one of the most ambitious social policies in Sierra Leone’s post-war history. In [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 January 2026 The Government of Liberia has taken a key step towards implementing the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) following the signing of a national declaration of commitment after a three-day national technical workshop held in Monrovia from 15–17 December 2025, with support [Read More]

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2026: Sierra Leone recorded a total of 306,0057 live births in 2025, with females accounting for 51 percent (156,089) and males 49 percent (149,968), producing a sex ratio of 96 males per 100 females. This is according to the National Civil Registration Authority’s [Read More]