By Saio Marrah
Save the Children International-Sierra Leone and partners have expressed concerns over what they described as child exploitation and abuse by politicians who involve children in their political activities in the ongoing 2023 elections campaign in the country.
Save the Children, Children’s Forum Network and the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), expressed these concerns at a press conference held at the Save the Children’s office in Freetown on 15th June 2023.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Presidential Candidate and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara has said they would want an independent internationally accredited team of electoral commissioners to conduct the election if the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) do not meet their demands.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
In order to ensure peaceful, credible, and transparent elections in the country, a group of Civil Society Organization (CSO) experts and media practitioners named Democracy Network (DEMNET) Sierra Leone has called on the two main political parties, the All Peoples Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) to be seen mobilizing agents and preaching peace.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Country Director of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy Rev.Alusine Diamond-Suma has said that gender equality is a prerequisite for human rights, democracy, and social justice, adding that it is beneficial to society.
Suma was speaking at a training held on the 14th June 2023 for members of Sierra Leone Press Gallery (SLPPG) on gender-sensitive reporting. He stated that human rights statutes ban all forms of discrimination on the grounds of gender.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) and its partners have launched a Terminology Application to aid the public understand disaster-related terms.
The Director of Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness at NDMA, Thomas Lebbie told Politico that the App was created to inform citizens on things that they ought to do and not do.
He stated the information in the App would help citizens to be more informed on what to do and how to protect themselves when a disaster occurs.
By Politico staff writer
In an effort to ensure food sufficiency and food self-reliance in Sierra Leone, Helen Keller International-Sierra Leone has ended a nationwide campaign and awareness raising about the invaluable nutritional and economic benefits of the Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes (OFSP) grown in the country.
By Alpha Abu
The Secretary-General of the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Umaru Napoleon Koroma says their party remains confident that the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) will hold credible elections next week.
He was speaking at a news conference at the SLPP headquarters in Freetown on Thursday 15th June that was called to react to the main opposition Presidential Candidate Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara’s Press Statement issued on the 14th June 2023.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
