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By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

It is exactly a year to the rainy day of 9 August 2022 when the body of Namisa Fatmata Kamara was discovered in a shallow grave inside a fenced compound at Sumaila Town in Freetown, nine days after she had gone missing. There have been no arrests or charges, leading the family to accuse the police of neglect.

According to an autopsy report, referenced by her mother, the 22-year-old university student was deflowered and brutally killed, apparently inside the house, before she was buried.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Alfred Ayodele Thompson from Western Area Urban has gone against his party’s decision and taken the oath of office in parliament. Thompson was sworn in yesterday 8^th August 2023, making him the second MP to boycott their party’s decision to not partake in all forms of governance.

By: Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr Austin Demby says $7 million is secure, waiting to be pumped into the establishment of a state-of-the-art diagnostic center at Kerry Town, just outside Waterloo.

In an interview with Politico, he said that amount had been ring-fenced by the Government of Sierra Leone with work due to start in due course for the center, which will also include a cancer treatment center. It will cost a total of $21 million and the minister assured of goodwill to get the job done.

By Nasratu kargbo

The Proprietor and Principal of the Education Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired Thomas Alieu has called on the government and other stakeholders to ensure they have a Braille version of civic education materials and other national documents.

By Nasratu Kargbo

According to a report launched by ActionAid Sierra Leone, only 38% of qualified health workers in Peripheral Health Units (PHUs) receive salaries from the government.

The report which was launched on the 28^th July 2023 titled “IMF wage bill ceiling and the Sierra Leonean’s right to adequate frontline workers” stated the findings  were  in selected districts, explaining that whilst 38% receive salaries from government, the remaining 62% are either on-the-job as trainees or volunteers.

By Saio Marrah

Lawyer Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, representing Alpha Sheriff, in the ongoing preliminary investigation into illegal possession of small arms, has argued that the police did not exhibit a bullet in court. He did this as he cross-examined police exhibit clerk, detective sergeant Sorie Ibrahim Kamara who was tendering exhibits in connection with the case.

By Saio Marrah

Sierra Leone’s Law Reform Commission has drafted a “Mediation Bill”; which when passed into law will establish a community- based independent mediation centres across the country to settle disputes without going to court.