The Cost of Living: The price of a bag of rice, Sierra Leone’s staple food, rose from Le 235,000 in 2018 to Le 360,000 in 2021. By Dec 2024, the price had skyrocketed to NL 1,020, marking a jaw-dropping 183.3% rise in just three years.
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It’s a wrap for #AFROMEDIVI.🎉 For the last three days, journalists from across Africa engaged with Africa’s debt landscape, the AU’s Lome Declaration and the Common Position on Debt, sovereign debt law, illicit financial flows, extractive sector finance, austerity, and climate justice. AFRODAD and @TIKenya extend deep gratitude to our speakers, facilitators, partner organisations, and most importantly the journalists who came committed to telling Africa’s debt story with rigour, context, and humanity. The Media Debt Network Africa (M-DNA) grows stronger. The work continues. #AfricaEconomicJustice #CAP @TIKenya
Africa Loses $163 Billion to Debt Service While Digital Taxes Go Uncollected says Pan-African lawyer and tax justice advocate Dr. Lyla Latif as she called for Africa to rethink its fiscal future.
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Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya, where the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development @AFRODAD2011 has brought together 45 journalists from 29 African countries united by a single mission: to make Africa’s debt story impossible to ignore.
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10 years at Fourah Bay College a decade of lectures, deadlines, and growth. Three degrees across Politics, Law & Communications.
Back where it all began: Old FBC, Cline Town, Freetown. Built in 1845, damaged during the war, now being restored. It’s a feeling of nostalgia.
Corruption continues to exact a heavy toll on Sierra Leone’s economy, undermining post-conflict recovery and long-term development, according to the Sierra Leone Governance and Corruption Diagnostic 2025 released by the IMF.
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LGBTQ POPULATION HITS 95,000
In 2010, reports put the LGBTQ+ community at 52K. By 2012, Dignity Org estimated 85K–100K, with big increases in lesbians + MSM
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