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 By James Tamba Lebbie

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health, Zainab Hawa Bangura as his Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. She succeeds Sweden’s Margot Wallström who was appointed in February 2010.

Mrs Bangura has also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and has a history of civil society activism. He also worked for the UN Mission in Liberia in the civil affairs department. She is the first and so far only woman to run for President in Sierra Leone when she did in 1996

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Usually reliable sources have intimated Politico that Supreme Court Judge, Justice Tolla Thompson is to become the head of the Political Parties' Registration Commission.

He succeeds Justice Samuel Ademusu who died in April and was buried in Nigeria as he had willed.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to announce, shortly, the appointment of Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health, Zainab Hawa bangura as his Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. She succeeds Sweden’s Margot Wallström who was appointed in February 2010.

Until her current ministerial position, Mrs Bangura had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and had been a civil society activist before working for the UN Mission in Liberia. She became the first woman to run for president in Sierra Leone in 1996.  

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In what seems to have been going on for at least five years, Politico has uncovered what is apparently a huge passport scam at Sierra Leone’s consulate in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

Members of the Academic Staff Association of the Bonthe Technical College, which became an affiliate of Njala University after the University Act of 2004, have threatened to go on a peaceful stay-away strike action if the government fails to address their “perennial plights.”