The Legal Aid Board and the Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs (MoGCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen response to Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The ceremony took place in the conference room of the Ministry at Cockle Bay in the west-end of Freetown on 30 June 2020. The MOU...Read More

Women of Bramaia Chiefdom in Kambia District have claimed that some staff attached to the Community Health Centre sometimes refuse to treat mothers and their babies who refuse to pay money. Speaking on behalf of a group of lactating mothers at Kukuna, the chiefdom headquarter town, Abibatu Kamara, a lactating mother, explained that nurses sometimes...Read More

Bintu Mansaray, the wife of Dr. Mahmoud Mansaray, now deceased, was on Thursday July 2, 2020 remanded at the Female Correctional Centre by Magistrate Marke Ngegba of Court No. 2 on Pademba Road  for the allegedly killing her   husband. She is currently been preliminarily investigated for the charge of murder contrary to law. Police alleged...Read More

Magistrate Marke Ngegba on Thursday July 2, 2020, ordered for two persons, Saidu Fofanah alias “shakur” and Komba Sandy alias “kartel”, to be remanded at the Male Correctional Centre on  Pademba Road in Freetown. The two are charged with the crimes of conspiracy, robbery with aggravation, wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. According to...Read More

The Sierra Leone Insurance Commission (SLICOM) has on Thursday July 2, 2020 signed an operational Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) at the Conference Hall of SLLCA in Freetown. The signing ceremony was attended by representatives from Sierra Leone Insurance Association (SLIC), SLICOM and the SLLCA. In his address...Read More