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By Tilly Barrie

The Executive Representative of the Secretary General in Sierra Leone (ERSG) has called on women to be included in peace talks as it is a matter of gender equality and human rights.

Jens Toyberg-Frandzen was addressing women groups at Hill Valley Hotel in Freetown during this year’s UN Open Day 2013 celebration with the theme “Women in Peace Building”.

He said the UN had a whole pillar on gender and the launch of the report would give an insight into where the UN was on gender issues as well as to advance it.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

World Vision Austria, a Christian charitable child focused nongovernment organization, through their Kono office, has embarked on a free medical treatment of hundreds of sick people at the Koidu referral hospital.

They have also done the same for their two sponsored communities of Fiama and Soa chiefdoms in the eastern Kono district. The treatment only targeted women and children.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Defense lawyer in the on-going trial of former staff of the revenue authority, NRA, Ecobank and National Shipping Company, has dismissed statements earlier made by his clients.

Emmanuel Teddy Koroma told a Freetown High Court on Monday that those statements earlier made by his client, the 9th accused Sheka Kpanabom, must not form part of the evidence against him “because he didn’t make the statement voluntarily”.

By Kenneth Thompson

Action Aid Sierra Leone in collaboration with Action Aid International Secretariat has concluded a five-day human rights based approach training of youth activists in the country at the civil service training college in Freetown. It is the sixth key change promise made by ActionAid. The other keys include training youth on land and agriculture, management, governance, tax justice, education and youth empowerment.

By Aminata Phedilia Alie