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Valerie Tucker

By Zainab Joaque

Country manager for reproduction health organisation, IPAS has called on government to renew its commitment to the women of Sierra Leone by ratifying the Maputo Protocol.

By Bampia James Bundu

As Sierra Leoneans prepare to celebrate the country’s 53^rd anniversary, one of the country’s GSM operators, Africell has launched a “ thrilling cash promotion to ensure that Sierra Leoneans get enough money in their pockets as they celebrate the independence”, according to the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Joe Abass Bangura.

Whiles speaking at the launch at Wilberforce, Bangura said the ‘Crazy Cash’ promotion would offer lucky subscribers to win Le10 million daily from 7 April - 4 May 2014.

There was drama yesterday at the military tribunal sitting at Cockeril with intermittent angry exchanges between prosecution and defence counsels.

14 soldiers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces were brought before it on allegations of treason.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono and Crispina Cummings in Freetown

The Lassa fever control unit in Kenema was recently in Kono district to collect blood samples from 15 people believed to have conveyed and buried the corpse of 14-year-old Sahr Lafalaywho allegedly died of Ebola.

President Koroma

By Bampia James Bundu

Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission has confirmed claims that President Ernest Bai Koroma has refused to see them since August 2013 when they last submitted to him the state of human rights report for 2012.

By Crispina Cummings

Parliament has set up an eight-man committee to investigate nongovernmental and civil society organizations, NGOs/CSOs on monies provided to them by donors with a view to find out how and whether such funds are expended judiciously.

The MPs first announced their intention last month and on Tuesday 25, March 2014 the special select committee unveiled in one of the sittings and it would be headed by the chief whip, Claude Kamanda.

By Crispina Cummings

Governor of the Central Bank of Sierra Leone has said that reactions to a recent economic measure have slowed down the implementing of the country’s dedollarization policy, meant to give preference to the leones over other foreign currencies.

Sheku Sambadeen Sesay on Tuesday told the country’s parliament that foreign accounts holders in the country had complained about bottlenecks in the withdrawal of foreign notes at commercial banks.