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By Tilly Barrie

Chairman WASH at Crab Town says the area found in the west end of Freetown was being used for dumping human waste and open defecation, making it vulnerable to cholera outbreaks.

Alhassan Deen Turay, who heads the water and sanitation advocacy group, WASH, lamented the state of affairs that was made worse by the nonexistence of water supply.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

With funds from the Decentralization Service Delivery Project, DSDP, the ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs has trained about 25children on the 2007 Child Rights Act at the Kono District Youth complex in Koidu.

The children were drawn from their own child-to-child advocacy organisation, Children’s Forum Network, CFN, to empower them with the Actsso that they could advocate for the rights and responsibilities of children in the fourteen chiefdoms of the district.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Minister of Water Resources, Hon. Momodu Maligie, has stated that his ministry has completed far more projects since 2002.

He made this statement whiles speaking at the confirmation ceremony of the Sierra Leone Water Company’s (SALWACO), new Director General, last Friday in Freetown.

By Bampia James Bund

Executive Director, Network Movement for Justice and Development, NMJD, has described strategic planning as the key to civil society activities. Abu Brima made the statement at the opening of a five-day strategic development meeting for civil society coalitions, funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), at Santano House in Freetown.

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, the late former president

President Ernest Bai Koroma on Sunday paid a condolence visit to the home of his predecessor and Sierra Leone's war time leader, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah who died on Thursday 13 March 2014 after a long illness. He was aged 82.

Lawyers acting on behalf of former Leone Stars’ skipper, Mohamed Kallon, have written a letter to the Sierra Leone Football Association, SLFA, secretariat registering their opposition to the constitution of the committee investigating the case involving their client.

The committee was to look into last week’s case of assault involving Kallon, who alleged that he was assaulted by FA president, Isha Johansen, who also claimed that she too was assaulted following an FA cup match at the football academy in Freetown. Both sides had filed complaints with the police.

Committee on water resources in parliament has summoned the minister of water resources, Momodu Maligie,to give reasons “for the acute water shortage despite the work of Guma Valley Water Company in Freetown”.

The MPs also warned all ministries, departments and agencieslike the fire force, ministry of defence and the police against “misusing water hydrants and related resources” and challenged them to pay up all debts owed to the water supply company.