Sierra Leone has come under renewed scrutiny as a key transit hub for international drug trafficking. A damning report by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and [Read more]
Ask Anyone from my generation who once read The Tablet newspaper, followed the writings of Nkrumah, Amie Cesaire, Senghor, Samir Amin, Fannon, Olu Gordon, and Paul Kamra, or watched the [Read more]
On Friday, 20th December 2022, Youth in Action for Development (YAD) and its educational offshoot, Youth Resource Academy (YRA), celebrated a significant milestone by certifying 60 youths across various professions [Read more]
The recent deportation of Sierra Leoneans from Guinea has triggered a retaliatory response from the Sierra Leonean government. This reaction has manifested in the arbitrary arrest and deportation of Guineans—or [Read more]
Youth in Action for Development (YAD) and its educational offshoot, Youth Resource Academy (YRA), on Wednesday, 20/12/2023, certified 62 students after two years of successful training in diverse skills. YRA [Read more]
On Tuesday and Wednesday, December 18th and 20th, 2023, YAD concluded its campaign against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with the annual Youth Unification Match. The campaign, which targeted hundreds of girls [Read more]
At an emergency membership meeting held on Friday, 8th September, 2023 at the St Anthony Hall, Syke Street, Freetown, NGOs gathered to chart a way forward in their affairs, as [Read more]
In Part One of this article, I promised to do a Part 2 where I will present more of President Julius Maada Bio’s achievements and show how in just five [Read more]
Even with Covid-19 and war in Ukraine… President Bio has done far better than 11 years of Ernest Bai Koroma. After five years in office, every president in Sierra Leone [Read more]
Youth Resource Academy (YRA), on Thursday, 27th April 2023, organized a talent exhibition at YAD headquarters in Kenema. The primary objective of the show was to allow final-year students of [Read more]
Christopher O’Neill of the O`Neill Automatisierung who is also a renowned Rotarian in Germany, has donated start-up kits for at least two potential graduates of Youth Resource Academy (YRA) in [Read more]
The Koiduwui Foundation team in Kenema has donated educational packages to 50 underprivileged children selected from diverse primary and secondary schools in Kenema city. Items donated include school uniforms, bags, [Read more]
YAD`s Youth Unification Match ended with the Youth Award Ceremony on Tuesday 20th December 22. The colourful event started on Monday, 19th December, with hundreds of youths storming the streets [Read more]
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), last week airlifted 149 Sierra Leoneans that were stranded in Niger, back to Sierra Leone, after failing to cross over to Europe in search [Read more]
The headquarters of Youth in Action for Development (YAD) in Kenema is now overwhelmed with intellectual euphoria as their leading German partner, Fambul Tik e.V., broke the news of the [Read more]
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