FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Land preparation for 2024 cereal crops ongoing Cereal production in 2023 estimated at above ‑ average level Prices of rice higher year‑on‑year Acute food insecurity projected...
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Sierra Leone | Floods and Landslide - DREF Operation Final Report, n° MDRSL013
A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster In August of 2022, persistent and heavy rainfall resulted in severe floods in Freetown; associated with landslides, especially in low-lying areas...
Sierra Leone: Funkia Fire Incident, DREF Final Report (MDRSL014)
Operation Start Date: 10-01-2023 Operational End Date: 30-04-2023 Description of the Event Date of event 2022-12-25 What happened, where and when? On 25 December 2022, a significant fire incident...
Cousins campaigning against child marriage hope village laws go national in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, 8 March 2024 -- When 19-year-old Kuji* managed to stop her cousin Kpemeh's* marriage at age 15 and she returned to school, the girls hoped it would set an example for others in their...
Fighting gender inequality in Sierra Leone
by Vishna Shah, Director of Advocacy, Campaigns, Media and Communications in West and Central Africa, SCI Sierra Leone has a population of 8.4 million people and women play a central role in society...
Major new climate resilience project launches in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, 6 March, 2024— People facing rising seas, fiercer storms and hotter weather along Sierra Leone’s coast will benefit from a significant new US$26.8 million initiative announced today by...
2023 Brief on Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has encountered various challenges, including global crises and internal political tension, which have greatly affected the economy and the lives of its citizens. The country's...
WFP RAM Sierra Leone Market Prices Bulletin | Quarter 4, 2023
Highlights The Leone (SLE) continued to depreciate against the United States Dollar (USD) by 22 percent compared from December 2022 to December 2023. The national headline inflation down to 52.2...
Sierra Leone: Birth is Life-Threatening for Women and Newborns
In Sierra Leone, the challenges surrounding childbirth pose life-threatening risks for women and newborns. The country currently ranks fifth in the world for infant mortality rates, with 34 deaths...
Nationwide Rollout of the Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) Mass Distribution Campaign in Sierra Leone
01 February 2024 After a successful pilot phase of the Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) mass distribution pilot campaign in Bo district in November 2023, the MoH with support from WHO and other...
Sierra Leone: Eager scenario model brief - Education Program through Local Ministries, 2022
Throughout Sierra Leone, poverty, early/forced marriage, the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak of 2014-2016 have created barriers to education for adolescent girls.i As a result, many girls never...
Blood aid to Sierra Leone may have saved over 17,000 children’s lives
A VITAL supply of blood bags to Sierra Leone funded by the Irish public may have saved the lives of over 17,000 children last month, according to Concern Worldwide. The Irish humanitarian...
Sierra Leone Launches National Public Health Agency to Strengthen Healthcare Infrastructure
Sierra Leone has taken a significant stride in strengthening its public health infrastructure with the unveiling of the National Public Health Agency (NPHA). This pivotal initiative, launched on...
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Germany and WFP join forces to boost school feeding in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN – The Federal Republic of Germany through its Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has provided EUR 10 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for...
Sierra Leone Receives Landmark Shipment of WHO-Approved Malaria Vaccine
In a recent development, Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and Gavi, has taken a significant step forward in the fight against malaria. On December 15,...
Sierra Leone: Civil Unrest, DREF Operation-Final Report MDRSL012
Description of the disaster From July 2022 to 13 August 2022, several districts in Freetown, Waterloo, Makeni and Kamakwei towns experienced a series of strike actions with civil unrest precipitating...
WFP RAM Sierra Leone Market Prices Bulletin | Quarter 3, 2023
Highlights The Leone (SLe) continued to depreciate against the United States Dollar (USD) by 60 percent compared from September 2022 to September 2023, marking one of the steepest declines in...
WFP Sierra Leone Country Brief, October 2023
In Numbers 156,520 people assisted 504 mt of food assistance distributed US$ 2.2 million six-month (November– April 2024) net funding requirement Operational Updates School Meals: • WFP through its...
The political economy of expedience: examining perspectives on military support to Sierra Leone’s Ebola response
Samuel T. Boland Dina Balabanova Susannah Mayhew Conflict and Health volume 17, Article number: 53 (2023) Abstract The 2013–2016 West Africa Ebola Epidemic is the largest outbreak of Ebola in...
Improving global health security through implementation of the National Action Plan for Health Security in Sierra Leone, 2018–2021: lessons from the field
Charles Njuguna, Mohamed Vandi, Tushar Singh, Ian Njeru, Jane Githuku, Wilson Gachari, Robert Musoke, Victor Caulker, Joseph Bunting-Graden, Michael Mahar, Sydney Morgan Brown, Mohamed Alpha Bah,...