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By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya

In order to ease the crisis surrounding onion in the country, the Smallholder Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project (SCADeP) has issued agricultural products like onion seeds and fertilizers to over 40 farmers in Makeni.

The Assistant Director of Crop Division at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Fatmata Margai, in a radio interview noted that the support is in line with the government’s efforts to address onion shortage and increase its production in the country.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

The Sierra Leone Commission on Arms and Ammunition (SLeCAA) has in a press release dated 1^st September this year confirmed that there are 377unlicensed local gun manufacturers and repairers as per survey conducted in 2020.

Of the total unlicensed gun manufacturers and repairers, 138 are local gun producers and 239 repairers, and according to the release, these illegal manufacturers of shotguns are a threat to the security of the country by contributing to the illegal ‘’proliferation’’ of small arms and ammunition.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Matimba is the first village in Sierra Leone to demolish their ‘Yanka’ or society bush where women earmarked for training into performing the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other traditional practices, according to the Executive Director of Amazonian Initiative Movement Rugiatu Neneh Turay.

Turay made this statement at a ceremony held to commission a formal education school at Matimba village which is located in Koya Chiefdom, Port Loko District.

By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya

The Head of Media and Communications at Judiciary of Sierra Leone, Elkass Sannoh has said that the 189 no-trace cases found during the Judicial Week will be struck-off.

In an interview with Politico, Sannoh said the cases will be removed from the judicial process, as long as nobody is making any follow-up interest.

By Saio Marrah

A 34-year old convict, Gibrilla Sesay of New site Campbell town Waterloo, has been sentenced to 20 years  imprisonment after pleading guilty to killing his childhood best friend, David Kamara over a woman.

Before his guilty plea and sentencing at High Court No.1 in Freetown On Tuesday 5^th  September 2023,  State Prosecutor, Solomon Christian Kekurah had applied for amendment of the indictment from murder to manslaughter.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

As Climate Change continues to impact and ravage communities across the world, President Julius Maada Bio has called on development partners to support African nations across the continent including Sierra Leone to tackle the global problem it poses to society.

He was delivering an address on the topic Financing Locally Led Climate Action Programme at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on the 4^th September, 2023.

By Sylvester Massaquoi in Pujehun

Police in Pujehun District have arrested and detained a man from Ngeyawamie Village in Barri Chiefdom on suspicion of sexually penetrating a 3-year old girl.