By Alpha Abu
Presidential Candidate of the Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP), Abdulai Saccoh together with leaders of nine other political parties have pledged their support for peaceful elections next week.
Sierra Leone human rights commission says election violence on the increase
By Saio Marrah
The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has in its initial pre-election period Report expressed concern about the magnitude of election violence cases in the country in the campaign period.
Over 100 peace mediators trained nationwide
By Politico staff writer
120 people from across Sierra Leone have completed training on Peace Mediation that was organized by the Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) in partnership with Ghana based Women, Peace and Security Institute (WPSI) of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).
The peace mediators- 64 men and 56 women were taught mediation and reconciliation skills.
Four innovators to compete for Africa engineering award
By Politico staff writer
Four innovators from Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda have been selected to compete for a whooping £25,000 (twenty five thousand pounds) Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation award.
The finalists and the prizes were announced through a press release dated 8th June, 2023 by the organizers.
The winner will be announced in Accra, Ghana, on 6th July, 2023, and the three other finalists will be receiving £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) each.
UNOWAS Special Rep. to visit Sierra Leone
By Politico staff writer
A Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa through the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Leonardo Santos Simao is to visit Sierra Leone “within the scope of a regional tour, and in the context of UNOWAS support for a peaceful electoral process in Sierra Leone’’, a release from the organisation said.
Accused freed, compensated NLE 30,000
By Saio Marrah
Justice Adrian Fisher has dismissed all charges of larceny brought against Zainab Mansaray, a distributor of Dyna Lab Sierra Leone Limited, and ordered the complainant, Mohamed Saluku Koroma, to pay her a compensation of NLE 30,000(Thirty thousand New Leones) within a week.
The presiding judge further said in his judgement at the Freetown High Court No.1 on Wednesday 7th June 2023 that if the complainant fails to honour the compensation, he will be sent to jail.
APC promises free vocational education
By Nasratu Kargbo
The All People’s Congress (APC) party manifesto has committed to offering free technical vocational education in a bid to invest in the country’s citizens. The party’s ‘One Nation Manifesto’ which was launched on the 29th May 2023, said one of its ten priority areas is ‘accelerating investment in our people’, and that the party could achieve this by prioritizing skills development.
