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By Crispina Cummings

Female members of parliament, MPs,yesterday met with partners to strategize for the ratification of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the Maputo Protocol.

Referred to as the caucus of female MPs, the women met partners like the Solidarity for African Women’s Right,SOAWR, New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Women’s Forum and three other like-minded groups.

Sierra Leone has attained all four primary convergence criteria for the West Africa Monetary Zone for the first time since the inception of the programme in 2001, accoriding to a release from the country's central bank.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie just back from Dakar

A one-day media training on investigating and reporting on statelessness has ended in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

It brought together media practitioners from Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, The Gambia and Sierra Leone.

Giving an overview of the issue, the head of Statelessness Unit in the office of the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR described the issue as “a very important phenomenon in terms of magnitude”.

Africa’s highest court has reaffirmed the rights of journalists on the continent.

The African Court on Human and People’s Rights has made a seminal decision which "strongly re-affirms the obligation of countries to protect the rights of journalists to practice free from intimidation and harassment" according to Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).

Cpt Prince Sesay, accused (hugging his aunt)

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Hector Boltman

The last surviving member of the delegation that negotiated Sierra Leone's independence at Lancaster House in London has passed away and will be laid to rest next week, Tuesday 15 April.

SIM Turay

The Executive Director of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has challenged the ranking of his agency by the State House performance contract team which rated it as the worst performing in the country.