SALWACO workers attack journalist in Makeni
A journalist working for the Torchlight newspaper was attacked on June 19, 2013, by a group of workers of the Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) based in Makeni, according to an alert from the Accra-based Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
No election in Mile 91
The spokesman of the National Electoral Commission, Albert Massaquoi says the parliamentary bye-election in the APC stronghold of Constituency 62 in Mile 91 will no longer hold. It was scheduled for Saturday 29 June following the appointment of the incumbent, Mathew Teambo, as Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations.
US official slams RUF kingpin
A United States Congressman, Frank R. Wolf has called on US Secretary of State John Kerry to wade into the issue of the former RUF kingpin and alleged Charles Taylor aide, Ibrahim Bah aka Ibrahim Baldeh.
“I write to urge the State Department to press the Government of Sierra Leone to open a criminal investigation against Ibrahim Bah”, Wolf writes in a letter to Secretary Kerry.
Statistics Sierra Leone illegal – SLPP
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Chairman and leader of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party says the Statistician General was appointed to that position “purposely to manipulate the census data in favour of the ruling All People's Congress”.
Bank robbed Le 300
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Two accused persons are currently facing preliminary investigations on a two-count charge of conspiracy to commit a felony and robbery with aggravation in the Freetown Magistrate Court No. 2 presided over by Komba Kamanda.
Journalist heads SLPP secretariat
Station Manager of Radio Wanjei in Pujehun district, Melvin Rogers was on Sunday elected Regional Secretary of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party by delegates at the party’s southern region convention in Pujehun.
