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By Chernor Bah

By Edna Ngegba

Though it continues to pose a threat to the wellbeing of women and girls across the world, the fight against cervical cancer in Sierra Leone remains a challenge due to many factors including the lack of knowledge, late diagnoses and preventive mechanisms. 

Cervical cancer according to the country’s health officials is the second most common cancer in women and girls between the ages of 15 – 45 in the West African country with an estimated population of eight million, with women accounting for fifty per cent of that population.

By Kemo Cham in Cape Town 

Even though there has been progress in reducing the number of maternal deaths worldwide in recent years, the gains are not enough to meet the global United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets, Koki Agarwal, an expert in reproductive health policy, has warned.

By Berns Komba Lebbie

Dear ‘Mama Salone’,

Today is the 27^th April, 2023. Sixty-two years exact, it could be recalled that, on this day in 1961, few of your politically hungry children chose to ask for a hand on the wheel of leadership from the white-man. It has been 62 years on since then, and the rest is part of the ‘told’ and ‘untold’ stories.

By Mohamed Berray

By Alpha Abu

Babadi Kamara is already a household name in sporting circles in Sierra Leone. His intervention in football in particular has somewhat given the game more meaning here, having brought class and foresight into it by embarking on ambitious projects more than any present day football stakeholder in the country.

The first-ever female Premier League to be hosted in Sierra Leone just ended with the Mogbewemo Queens taking the trophy to the far South of Sierra Leone. To get an insight into the entire process leading to the championship, the Premiere League Board Chairperson, Mrs. Asmaa James sat with our Editor Mabinty Magdalene Kamara.

Politico: The first-ever female premier league that just ended how was it like?