Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation

The Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation has established the .SL ccTLD Stakeholder Working Group to guide the transfer of Sierra Leone’s national internet domain, .sl, to local management. The Working Group was constituted at the Preliminary Consultation on the Repatriation and Redelegation of the .SL ccTLD, held today. This was the first technical engagement [...]

Press Release | 27th October 2026 Sierra Leone’s security forces, working with the National Telecommunications Authority (NaTCA), have arrested 18 people and detained approximately 400 in coordinated, intelligence-led raids targeting a suspected international cybercrime network operating in Freetown and Kenema. The operations uncovered more than 1,200 mobile phones, hundreds of computers and monitors, servers, SIM [...]

The Digital Skills Training Programme for Civil Servants is being rolled out across Sierra Leone’s civil service, and Cohort 2 has just completed its second week. The programme is designed to modernise how government offices work and improve the services they provide. The Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation is delivering it with the Ministry [...]

Speaking virtually from Freetown today at the Financial Times Africa Summit 2026, on a panel on Scaling Africa’s Tech Infrastructure and Hubs, the Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Hon. Salima Monorma Bah made the case that the investment needed for digital infrastructure and energy is too large for governments to fund alone. Their task [...]

Minister Salima Monorma Bah has welcomed Ms Mariko Kagoshima, the new UNICEF Representative in Sierra Leone, during a courtesy visit at NaTCA Tower, Imatt, Freetown, to discuss continued collaboration between MoCTI and UNICEF on digital learning and digital public infrastructure. The discussions covered expanding the Digital Learning Hubs set up by the The Directorate of [...]

Where a person lives should not determine whether their school can access digital learning resources, their health facility can use digital tools, or their local government office can deliver services efficiently. Reliable internet connectivity is an important part of making these services more accessible. Through the Sierra Leone Digital Transformation Project , the Ministry of [...]

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