The African Development Bank on Thursday in Tunis approved two grants and a loan amounting to USD 34.08 million to finance the rehabilitation of the Masiaka-Sefadu road project in the northeast of Sierra Leone, according to a release from the Bank.
The road to the country’s diamond-rich Kono district has been in a decrepit state for years and despite repeated promises by successive governments, it has not been fixed leading to the soaring of prices of commodities.
A two-day conference of land owners which closed yesterday in Freetown has challenged transparency in land acquisition and use in Sierra Leone, calling for effective environmental management of land, water and vegetation in lease areas to prevent destruction of resources.
By Alpha Abu
People living in the extreme east end of the capital, Freetown are becoming increasingly alarmed at the spate of machete attacks on residents by robbers.
These attacks are concentrated in the highly populated Wellington community, with the police virtually incapable of stopping them.
Victims in most of the cases, described the robbers as young men wearing only boxers with no clothes, and apparently high on drugs. They carry out their attacks in a ruthless manner hardly imagined of any sane person.
The Governments of the United States and Sierra Leone have increased by $ 20 nonimmigrant visa fees for each other’s citizens wishing to visit each other’s country.
Effective Friday 13 April 2012, Americans and Sierra Leoneans will require to pay $ 160. A press release from the Sierra Leone mission in Washington DC says the increase is as a result of an announced increase made by the US embassy in Freetown, calling it “consistent with the principle of reciprocity which governs relations between countries on consular matters”.
By Alhaji Komba
Fresh from a successful party convention in the southern headquarter town of Bo, the newly-elected flag bearer of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) Mohamed Bangura has told Politico that “the first challenge” facing his movement is to establish “a third party” and so provide a clear alternative to the people of Sierra Leone. He said the “UDM is not here to win in 2012” but that they would “concentrate on winning many parliamentary and local council seats across the country”.
PRESS RELEASE
RE: GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER ON SHEARS-MOSES COMMISSION REPORT
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
