UN Headquarters will observe the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on Thursday, May 26, 2022. Secretary-General António Guterres will lay a wreath to honour the nearly 4,200 UN peacekeepers who have lost their lives since 1948 and will preside over a ceremony at which the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal will be awarded posthumously to 117...Read More
Sierra Leone Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives (SLEITI) on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 held a national sensitization and dissemination event on 2019 SLEITI report which is themed: “Promoting Sustainable Development Through a Transparent and Accountable Extractive Sector”. The event which was held at the Western Area Rural District Council hall in Waterloo was attended by policymakers,...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 unveiled a Le 5.3 billion paid into the accounts of the Community Development Agreement, (CDA) fund by the Kingho Mining Company, a subsidiary of Leone Rock Metals. The unveiling of the fund was done at the Ferengbeya Mining Site, Tonkolili District. The President...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Alhassan Kanney Bangura, 20, was on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 sent to jail by Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Pademba Road Court No.1 over an alleged theft of Le12 million from Hassan Musa Bangura, an Internal auditor at NASSIT and wife Umu Bangura. The accused was arraigned on two counts of house breaking...Read More
The Judiciary of Sierra Leone through the Judicial and Legal Training Institute (JLTI) in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Coordination Centre and the OCWAR-Project have commenced a four-day judicial training on Cybercrime and Collecting of Electronic Evidence for 20 Judges of the Superior Court. In his statement, the Chief Justice, His Lordship Justice Desmond...Read More
A building contractor John R. Taylor was on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 granted bail in the sum of Le250 million by Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Pademba road court No.1. The accused was arraigned on allegation of 30 thousand Pounds fraud. Taylor is before the court on one count charge of fraudulent conversion contrary to section...Read More
The Sierra Leonean Krio is among the latest languages to find its way on the Google Translate Service. Krio is an English-based Creole language of Sierra Leone. It is the first language of about 350,000 people and is used as a lingua franca by over 4 million. It is spoken by 87% of Sierra Leone’s...Read More
The Legal Aid Board with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a two-day training workshop on improving access to justice for victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) cases in Kono and Kailahun Districts. Twenty staff, 10 each from the Legal Aid Board and the Kenema based human rights organization, Humanist...Read More
Despite significant efforts to maintain malaria programming through the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria and several Commonwealth countries are falling behind in the race to halve malaria cases and incidence by 2023. The Commonwealth is currently off track to achieving the commitment to halve malaria by 2023,as agreed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London...Read More
Sierra Leone’s health authorities on Monday said the country has recorded over 2,600 obstetric fistula cases, a type of childbirth injury for women, since 2020. Obstetric fistula is preventable through the provision of quality care at birth and most cases can be repaired surgically, said Francis Moses, a health expert of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of...Read More
