Everest Jones, a labourer, was yesterday before Magistrate Peter Gogra of Pademba Road Court No.6 in Freetown on two counts of larceny and  malicious damage. According to the particulars of offence, the accused on diverse dates in  January 2022 at Mac Pharmacy,  No.5 Freetown Road, Lumley in Freetown did steal one old Kipo generator battery...Read More

The 2021 Mid-Term Housing and Population shows that Western Area Urban accounted for 606, 701 (8 percent) of the country’s 7,541,641 total population.  But the report of the 2015 Census recorded a population of 1,055,964 in Western Area Urban representing 15 % of the total population. This figures shows that Freetown lost almost half its...Read More

The Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (EC-SL) in collaboration with the German Embassy and the ECOWAS Commission has held a two-day capacity building training for journalists across the country to enhance credible, balance, fair and accurate elections reporting. The training which is co-funded by the European Union was held on the 6th -7th of June...Read More

Human Right Youth Coalition- Sierra Leone (HYRC-SL) with Support from UNDP has engaged residents of Dasse Chiefdom in Moyamba Chiefdom in a day community gender sensitive forum on UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and the Sexual Offences Act, 2019.  The training took place at the Dasse Barray...Read More

The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), a civil society organisation, has urged the government, citizens and other civil society organisations to stop the current proposal in the Sierra Leone Parliament to increase the salaries of the Members of Parliament. The Bill, “Parliamentary Welfare Act 2022”, suggests that each member of parliament receives US$25,000...Read More