By Crispina Lois Cummings
The Sierra Leone Roads Authority and Freetown City Council have blamed each other when parliament summoned them to explain why the city gets filthier by the day, posing serious health hazards for its inhabitants.
The two institutions and Masada had been summoned to face the Committee on Local Government to answer to specific allegations made by FCC in a previous query for the “alarming proportion of garbage” littering the streets of Freetown.
By Zainab Joaque
The Chinese ambassador to Sierra Leone has delivered what amounts to a frank talk in a paper delivered to journalists yesterday.
Kuang Weilin says that as African countries compete “fiercely” with one another for more investment and assistance from China, Sierra Leone must be "on a fast track" or it will be "unable to take full advantage of many opportunities".
He says he hopes "some people will be highly motivated and move faster so that both countries can act in tandem on some important projects".
By Bob Batilo Saffa in Pendembu
Concerns have been expressed that Kailahun town will soon be cut off from the rest of the country. The 25-kilometer road linking the town to Pendembu is said to be in a poor state rendering it almost impassable.
By Mathew Kanu
Forty-five-year-old farmer and former councillor of the Bombali district council, Juliana Conteh, says she planted ten bushels of groundnuts and hopes to harvest more than ten bags, which she says is her only source of livelihood.
“From groundnut farming I have secured a political and teaching career and it still contributes to solving the problems of my four children and other family members” she says, adding that “Groundnut farming is a women’s affair in Binkolo”.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
