By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya
The President of Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WMSL) Eastina Taylor has called on female journalists to promote dialogue and facilitate conversations in an effort to foster peace between conflicting parties in their communities.
By Saio Marrah
Sierra Leone’s First Lady, Fatima Jabbie Bio, has during the 2023 Girls Health Summit organized by West Africa Women and Girls Empowerment-Sierra Leone (WAWGE-SL), called for concerted efforts to tackle the harmful drug, Kush.
She made the call during her keynote address at the summit, held at the Freetown City Hall on Tuesday 10th October 2023, with the theme “Breaking Barriers On Adolescent Girls Health.”
By Nasratu Kargbo
Within ten months an estimated one thousand one hundred and seventy-three (1,173) hectares of land have been deforested in the country’s Western Area Peninsular National Park, according to Haja Kaday Sesay from Climate Change, Environment and Forest Conservation Consortium (CEFCON-SL).
By Mabinty M. Kamara
As part of what they described as priority recommendations, the European Union-Election Observation Mission to Sierra Leone has called on the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) to publish results data by polling station, including results per candidate and per party, the number of registered voters and of valid and invalid votes, in a timely manner and in an easily trackable and downloadable database format in future elections.
By Saio Marrah
Alpha Barrie, the regional manager of Rokel Commercial Bank in the south has testified in court that the first accused, Mohamed Arafat S. Munda in a preliminary investigation into a case of fraud involving his institution, confessed to tampering with the account of a deceased customer but that he was not alone.
By Saio Marrah
Detective Constable Osman Mohamed Bangura, a prosecution witness in a case in which a man is accused of conspiracy to commit a felony and being an accessory to the fact has denied asking for a bribe of NLe 15, 000.00 from the accused to keep him out of a cell. The police witness was under cross-examination by Lawyer Sylvanus Kanyako at Pademba Road Magistrate’s Court in Freetown on Monday 9th October 2023.
By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya
The Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Security has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) on Monday 9th October 2023, for the development of a Volunteering Policy that will guide the service in Sierra Leone.
VSO’s Programme Manager, Isha Bangura in her statement at the event, said the policy development process was very timely, noting that the issue of volunteerism has existed for far too long without structures.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
