In 2015, Sierra Leone banned pregnant girls from going to school after a surge in sexual violence and teenage pregnancies driven by the Ebola crisis.
The East End Tigers named police officer Victoria Conteh, who formerly coached the country's female football team, as its head coach.
Elba was born in London but his mother is from Ghana and his father from Sierra Leone, where he has expressed interest in investing in eco-tourism.
While it is evident that aviation in Africa has the potential to fuel economic growth, several barriers exist.
A report by Oxfam and Development Finance International shows that the wealthiest 1% of West Africans own more than everyone else in the region combined.
Payouts are triggered once a virus outbreak crosses an international border and claims at least 20 lives in each of at least two countries.
According to police statistics, reported cases of sexual and gender-based violence nearly doubled last year to over 8,500, a third of which involved a minor.
Bio took over as president after winning last April's election run-off following a tumultuous campaign in which he targeted corruption.
Thousands of children and young girls were raped last year in Sierra Leone - a silent epidemic of suffering in one of the world's poorest countries.
The first ladies of Liberia, Niger, Ghana, Chad and Gambia gave their backing to the initiative.
The open-air truck was carrying more than 40 soldiers from their barracks to a funeral in Freetown when its brakes failed as it descended a steep hill.
Sierra Leone, which was battered by civil war between 1991-2002, is sharply divided along regional lines that overlap with ethnicity.
Tens of thousands of supporters packed into a municipal stadium in the capital Freetown alongside regional dignitaries participating in the inauguration ceremony for Maada Bio.
Samura Kamara spoke of reconciliation when he attended a church service last Sunday with President Julius Maade Bio, a former military ruler of Sierra Leone.
President Julius Maada Bio was declared winner late on Wednesday with 51.81 percent of votes and was sworn in hours later.
Opposition candidate and former military junta leader Maada Bio was declared victor in the election late on Wednesday with 51.81% of votes and was sworn in hours later.
He now faces the difficult task of rebuilding the impoverished West African nation’s economy that was dragged down by the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic and a global slump in commodity prices.
The opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) said on Monday its candidate Julius Maada Bio had won a presidential run-off election.
