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Sierra Leone's National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) has issued a statement on the so-called "Wangiri Scam" calls. The press release, signed by Abdul Ben-Foday, director of corporate and industry affairs at the National Telecommunications Commission in Freetown, reads in full: The attention of the National Telecommunications Communications (NATCOM) has been drawn to a series of criminal activities carried   out by scammers using the 232-21 Code to perpetrate their criminal activities. The Commission is informed that certain persons in the USA have been receiving scam calls purportedly coming from Sierra Leone, and the said criminal syndicate known as 'WANGIRI or One Ring' has been reported through various news channels and tabloids. This has the propensity of affecting the country's image internationally. Being deeply concerned by this development, the Commission wishes   to assure the government and the people of the USA and other r

Over the past decade, Sierra Leone has made progress in getting more children into school by constructing and rehabilitating schools, procuring reading/teaching and learning materials as well as disbursing performance-based grants. A new grant of US$17.2 million aims to increase equitable access to education and improve learning outcomes for approximately 1 million girls and boys in public pre-primary and primary schools, with a focus on the most vulnerable children. “Sierra Leone has been a GPE partner since 2007 and engaged in the important process of building an education system that supports all of the country’s children,” said Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer, Global Partnership for Education. “This latest funding will be key to making further progress for the youngest learners in reading and writing and increase access to early childhood education, which is the foundation for lifelong learning, for thousands of children,”  Albright said. The grant will help improve