The Commonwealth Secretariat has conducted human rights training for Maldives police instructors and legal officers through a programme in the capital Malé this month.
In centuries gone by, Sierra Leone was called the 'grain coast'; but the discovery of diamonds in the West African nation led to a decade-long civil war in 1992.
Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Ransford Smith is determined to strengthen the work of the Commonwealth Secretariat to enhance the socio-economic progress of member states.