Updates

Key findings This current analysis will be used a reference point to the methodology used and according to the current results (FSMS February 2022), 73% percent of Sierra Leone’s population is food...

State House, Freetown, Thursday 28 April 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio today received a report from the 15-man Presidential Taskforce set up to investigate circumstances...

The deployment of these health workers is precipitated by the overwhelming state of the nation’s health care system after the sudden fire disaster at Wellington that claimed many lives and left many...

The principal objective of the Coordination Center is to galvanize experts & liaise with other relevant command centers to judiciously manage donations, deploy material & human resources to cater for...

Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday 7 November 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has ended his visits to survivors of the tragic fuel tanker explosion who are now responding to treatment...

GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRESS RELEASE FROM THE NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AGENCY 6th November 2021 In the late hours of Friday 5th November 2021, a fire incident was...

Joint Press Release Freetown, Monday, 13th September 2021 -- The United States Government, through the COVAX Facility, has boosted the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Sierra Leone, with a...

State House, Freetown, Monday 13 September 2021 – Vice President Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has launched the National Early Warning and Response Mechanism Coordinating Center, an initiative intended to...

MEDIA NOTE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON The text of the following statement was released initially by the Governments of the United States of America, Albania, Australia, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and...

The following is the text of a joint statement on Afghanistan initially released by the following: Albania, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,...

INTRODUCTION Household food security exists when all members always have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an...

This latest food security analysis shows a deterioration in food security in Sierra Leone compared to February 2019, with the total food-insecure population increasing from 34 percent to 47.7...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday 9 February 2020 – President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has engaged President Dr Julius Maada Bio at a side event of the AU Summit...

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Sierra Leone is pleased to share a copy of the Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR) Report — officially launched on 16 October 2019 on World Food Day. This Strategic...

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Sierra Leone has officially released its Food Security System (FSMS) Assessment Report. The complete findings was finalized in August 2019 and validated by...

Executive Summary The Sierra Leone National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) is based on the recommendations of the 2016 Joint External Evaluation (JEE). The JEE is a voluntary, collaborative...

Freetown, Friday 16 August 2019 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has paid two separate visits to flood victims in Wellington and Tombo, in the Western Urban and Rural Areas...

Highlights Overall, the food security situation in Sierra Leone has improved since September 2015, with the proportion of the food insecure population decreasing from 49.8 percent to 43.7 percent...

The quarterly Sierra Leone Market Price Bulletin provides updates on price changes for staple food commodities in Sierra Leone. This information can be used to guide programme and policy decisions by...

The Directorate of Food and Nutrition of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation and Action Against Hunger Sierra Leone, with funding from Irish Aid, conducted the National Nutrition Survey...