Kenema City, Eastern Sierra Leone, 28th March 2022 — The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) over the weekend visited villages and towns in Kenema and Kailahun districts where inhabitants were affected by fire and windstorm, displacing a total of 78 households in Bandawo Village, Niawa Lokoma Chiefdom; Duduwai Street, Kenema City; Mende Kelema Village, Guara...Read More

Freetown, March 4th 2022 — The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) with support from Save the Children and All for One Foundation today donated huge consignments of non-food items to the Milton Margai School for the Blind fire victims at its Wilkinson Road School. It could be recalled that on Monday 21st February 2022, the...Read More

Freetown, 24th February 2022 — Following the recent fire outbreak at the Milton Margai School for the Blind that gutted the school’s boarding home facility (CHRISTOFELL HOUSE) and destroyed properties worth millions of Leones on Monday 21 February 2022, the National Disaster Management Agency immediately commenced an assessment to ascertain the cause of fire and...Read More

Freetown, 23rd February 2022 — The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) in collaboration with the Office of National Security, the Republic of Sierra Leone Arm Forces, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Sierra Leone Police undertook a joint assessment on the Guma Valley Dam to determine how encroachment from various fronts, deforestation close to...Read More

Freetown, 14th February 2022–The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) with support from the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), over the weekend conducted a pilot risk assessment and hazard profiling of four fuel stations (Leonco – Congo Cross, Total – Bus Halt, NP – Siaka Stevens Street and Malador – Dwazark Junction) in Freetown. The risk assessment...Read More

Nigerian Embassy, Hill Cut Junction, Freetown, February 8th 2022 – A team from the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) headed by the Deputy Director-General, John V. Rogers, paid a courtesy call on the Nigerian High Commissioner, Henry John Omaku to introduce the NDMA to the Embassy and explore possibilities of support and partnership between NDMA,...Read More

Plantain Island, Kagboro Chiefdom, Moyamba District, 3 February 2022 – Following concerns received by the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) relating to serious erosion on Plantain Island, the NDMA through its Directorates of Risk Reduction and Preparedness, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation and Communications, in partnership with Climate Change Specialist, Paul Murphy-working with WFP visited the...Read More

During Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ambassador Adekunle King’s visit to the Director-General of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Brima Sesay in June 2021, he intimated him about a case he had put forward to the African Union (AU) on behalf of the 2017 Mortemeh Mudslide Victims; to improve their living...Read More

In the morning hours of Saturday 4th September 2021, Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) received distress calls from residents of No. 14 Kissy Road in Freetown notifying the Agency about the collapse of a building that was predominantly used as a store and for business purposes. NDMA’s Director-General, Lit. Gen. (Rtd) Brima Sesay,...Read More

Chinese Embassy, Spur Loop, Freetown, 1st September 2021 — Director General of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), Lt. General (Rtd) Brima Sesay together with a cross section of staff of the NDMA, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Chinese Ambassador Hu Zhangliang at his Spur Loop office in Freetown. Welcoming the NDMA delegation,...Read More