The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 announced the formation of a broad based committee named “The SLAJ Criminal Libel Repeal Advocacy Group” to lobby for the last lap in the process of repealing the Criminal and Seditious Libel laws contained in the Public Order Act of 1965. The...Read More
The European Union and the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Thursday June 18, 2020, launched a nationwide radio and television programme specifically aimed at addressing fake news and misinformation around COVID-19 circulating on social media and messaging platforms. The radio and TV show will be broadcast twice weekly on Wednesdays at 2:00pm...Read More
Minister of Health and Sanitation, Professor Alpha Wurie, while addressing health workers at the National Stadium last Tuesday, said government will recruit 3000 nurses by 2021 with a view to strengthening the health sector in the country. Professor Wurie made the statement at the opening ceremony of a recruitment process organized by the Health Service...Read More
The Sierra Leone Police have arrested four people for an alleged case of murder of a five-year-old girl, Khadijah Madinatu Saccoh, whose autopsy report, lists manual strangulation (asphyial death), spinal cord injury, bitten tongue, vaginal and anal dilatation, finger nail excoriation, fracture of cervical vertebrae as the causes of her death. Mariatu Rashid, the Line...Read More
The Sierra Leone government has on Monday June 22, 2020, received the second batch of medical supplies from the People’s Republic of China to support the fight against COVID-19. Speaking during the handing ceremony, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E. Hu Zhangliang, said that the donated items include 10,032 testing kits, 5,000 PPEs, 15,000...Read More
The Civil Society Consortium on Accountability and Service Delivery has called on the Government of Sierra Leone to lift the temporal ban on timber transportation and give consideration to Domestic Board Sellers Association. The National Coordinator of the Civil Society Consortium, William Sao-Lamin told a news conference in Freetown on Monday that if the ban...Read More
Inspector Mohamed Sultan Sewa, a police commanding office attached to the Moyamba Police Station, on Thursday June 18, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 that one Abdul Turay, with ill will, wounded him deliberately and in the process also caused grave harm to his person. The accused person, Abdul Turay, is being...Read More
Agriculture plays a crucial role in the development of national economies. For cash crop like cocoa, there are growing concerns about declining output due mainly to aging and diseased trees as seen in Sierra Leone where yields are becoming increasingly low. In the bid to overcome this challenge, the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVDP) is supporting...Read More
Haja Mariatu Kamara, chairlady of Wellington’s Pan Bridge Market in the East of Freetown, has said on Monday June 15, 2020, that for over 30 years now the community has gone without a properly built stricture for the purpose of housing traders selling food items. She said that the situation has caused traders to be...Read More
The deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Hon. Dr. Abu Abu Bakarr Karim has said on Thursday June 19 2020, that Sierra Leone faces major challenges in delivering health services for animals. The deputy Minister of Agriculture made the remark during the official handing over of the revised para-veterinary curriculum to the Ministry of Agriculture...Read More
