Lawyers seeking to provide counsel to the hundreds of people detained by the Sierra Leone Police at various police detention facilities across the country were denied access to the jails. Their families have repeatedly been denied access to them. The Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA) said in a letter to the Inspector General of Police...Read More
The Greek community across the Illawarra and South Coast of NSW saw 180 dignitaries and guests from the Greek community of Wollongong welcomed internationally renowned speaker, missionary and founder of Paradise 4 Kids, Bishop Themistocles of Nicopolis, from Sierra Leone. The St Nektarios parish of Wollongong, with permission from Archbishop Makarios, hosted a fundraiser on...Read More
It is an indisputable fact that since the outbreak of the Russia and Ukraine war the supply of and access to petroleum products became disrupted simply because Russia is a main producer and supplier, coupled with the imposition of sanctions on Russia by the West, thereby seriously affecting smooth trading transactions. Sierra Leone, like any...Read More
The SKD had artificial turf laid and bucket seats installed as part of its recent renovations Liberia’s President George Weah has allowed Sierra Leone and its club sides to use the Samuel Kanyon Doe (SKD) sports complex free of charge. Sierra Leone will play a ‘home’ African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier against Mali at the...Read More
The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Labour, has turned over sixteen (16) Sierra Leonean nationals who were trafficked to Liberia to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for repatriation. The sixteen Sierra Leoneans are expected to return to their Country and reunite with families on Thursday, August 25, 2022. The sixteen persons, 14...Read More
The Community Media Network in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiNoRF), in a bid to popularize the concept of the Right to Food (RtF) in Sierra Leone, has taken the concept to students in the northern University of Makeni (UniMak) on Wednesday, August 24, 2022. The public lecture which...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on August 23, 2022, recovered in full the total sum of Le 187.9 million, being monies which Audit Service Sierra Leone flagged as inappropriately paid from the Freetown City Council (FCC) funds, by the Council to the Head of the Mayor’s Delivery Unit. The said monies were paid to the Commission...Read More
The Chairman of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) Mr. Abdullai Masiyambay Bangurah on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, admonished the leadership of the 17 registered political parties in Sierra Leone to engage in robust sensitization on the importance of the 2022 voter registration process. In his statement during the launching of the 2022 voter registration...Read More
The communications officer at Africell, Elizabeth Bockarie has filed a suit against one Gabriel Foray Bambay for Larceny contrary to Law. The accused who identified himself as a carpenter and house help to the complainant was said to have ransacked the house of the complainant and stole computer. The accused appeared before Magistrate Santigie Bangura...Read More
UN human rights experts on August 20, 2022 called for stronger measures to prevent and penalise female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone, following criminal proceedings on the death of a 21-year-old student who was subjected to the brutal practice in the Bonthe District. “Female genital mutilation is a grave form of violence against women and...Read More
