Kingho Mining Company Limited has during the public disclosure of an addendum to its current Environmental and Social, Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) for the construction of a Tailings Beneficiation Plant at the Tonkolili Iron Ore Mines, got an absolute approval from stakeholders of the mining concessions chiefdoms of Sambaia, Simiria and Dansogoia.The meeting which took...Read More
the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE was in The Hague, Netherlands on Thursday, April 28, where she had the honor of delivering the keynote address at the Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation international retreat. DRK Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. They believe that with early...Read More
The judge said prosecutors had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Massaquoi committed the crimes of rape, ritual murder, torture and recruitment of child soldiers during the war. A court in Finland has acquitted Gibril Massaquoi, the former Revolutionary United Front commander in Sierra Leone, of all the charges in his year-long trial...Read More
The Public Education Unit of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Office in Kono has held a customized sensitization engagement with staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) in the district on ‘Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption measures and maintaining Effective Service Delivery’. The meeting, which took place on April 26, 2022 in the conference room of the...Read More
Thirty-two survivors of obstetric fistula who successfully underwent surgery at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre [AWC] with funding support from the Government of Iceland through UNFPA were on Friday, April 22, 2022 reunited with their families. In a brief discharge ceremony of the first set of 19 women at the Centre in Freetown, Deputy Representative of...Read More
Behaviour of the public, following the collision, was a major contributing factor to the scale and seriousness of the Wellington petrol tanker fire disaster of November 5, 2021 which left at least 154 people dead, according to the findings of the Task Force which was set up by President Julius Maada Bio to investigate the...Read More
The Parliament of Sierra Leone on Friday, April 29, 2022 engaged development partners in Committee Room One, Parliament Building in Freetown. In her welcome address, the Deputy Director of the Department for Programmes, Research, and Partnership, Nancy Jalloh on behalf of management and her department, explained the role and functions of Parliament, in light of...Read More
A man from Sierra Leone has been charged with stabbing his wife to death before setting fire to their home, a court has heard. Amidu Koroma, 47, is accused of murdering Mariam Kamara, 46, at a property in Railton Road, Brixton, south London. The stabbing and fire happened at a property in Railton Road, Brixton, south...Read More
As part of their social corporate responsibility, Orange Sierra Leone on Friday, April 29, 2022 donated food items to four mosques within Calton and Thompson bay community, as part of its Ramadan iftar support. Speaking while handing over the donation, CSR Manager Mr. Kamel Abass, said that it is part of their corporate social responsibility...Read More
The Society for Women & AIDS in Africa Sierra Leone (SWAASL) on Friday April 29, 2022, engaged philanthropist, Barbara Robinson who had supported and provided funds for their course on sustainable livelihood projects for persons living with HIV/AIDS. The President of SWAASL, Monica Greene said that they appreciate the strides made by Barbara Robinson in...Read More
