Press Releases

  • 09 Nov 2010 - 2010 Human Development Report: 40 Year Trends Analysis shows Poor Nation Making Faster Developent Gains.   20th anniversary UNDP report finds long-term progress in health, education not determined by income; introduces new indicies for gender, poverty, inequality   United...
  • 12 Aug 2010 - Programmes, to reverse the circumstances of our young people, should be created to develop youth as a resource for sustainable development, said Dr Algashim O.Jah, Deputy Minister for Education, Youth and Sports at the launch of the International Year of Youth. 12 August 2010...
  • 25 Jun 2010 - 15th June 2010 - Speaking at State House Press conference in his honour, the Secretary-General disclosed that he saw amputees playing football the previous day and was very impressed with their courage and fortitude."I was moved." He said. "You have gone through tragic...
  • 11 Jun 2010 - Freetown, 4th December 2009: Sierra Leoneans join thousands of volunteers from around the globe to celebrate "Volunteering for our Planet" in collaboration with Africell. Thousands of volunteers from around the world have registered more than 1 million hours of effort to tackle...
  • 11 Jun 2010 - 2 December 2009 - The Government of Japan has provided US$ 1.3 million (one million three hundred thousand United States dollars) for "the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases" supporting the efforts to reduce child and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. The project...

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