Sierra Leone today hosts the tenth Annual General Meeting of the West African Telecommunications Regulatory Assembly (WATRA) at the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown.
According to a press release from the National Telecommunications Commission, the 2-day event will bring together independent National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) and departments for regulation of telecommunications services established the sixteen countries of West Africa.
By Zainab Joaque
Christian Brothers from eight communities in Sierra Leone along with representatives from Ghana and Liberia, friends and members will gather in Freetown on Friday June 1, 2012 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of its founder, Blessed Edmund Rice.
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An unspecified number of workers at the mobile telecommunications company, AFRICELL, have written a strongly-worded letter to their management demanding improved pay and conditions of service, issuing a 10-point demand.
Among the serious allegations levelled against their employers, the aggrieved workers accuse the company of flouting government provisions with impunity alleging that some government ministers are propping up the company because “they have vested interest there”.
By Abubakarr Jalloh in Dakar
There has been an angry reaction to the manner and scope of celebrations marking Sierra Leone’s 51st independence anniversary in Dakar on 27 April.
Some Sierra Leoneans living in the Senegalese capital, who had clamoured for the opening of the embassy there, have even suggested that it be closed.
They accused the ambassador, Khadi Bassir, of running the mission like “a private organization and not in the interest of Sierra Leoneans”.
A 30-member United Nations Security Council delegation arrives in Freetown this morning for a 1-day official working visit. The delegation will leave tonight. However, according to the US embassy in Freetown, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Susan Rice, will not be with the team and will leave Abidjan for New York. The embassy information officer, Mark Carr, would not give any reasons for this.
A public lecture on the topic: “From the Classroom to Entrepreneurial Through the Application of Industry Property Systems” has been delivered by Dr. Isaac Palmer at the Mary Kinglsey Auditorium at Fourah Bay College.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
