By Saio Marrah
A document from One Health (OH) has indicated that over 75% of new and emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals. Rabies, Lassa fever and Ebola are among the diseases highlighted.
This was revealed at the commemoration of Global OH at the Freetown City Council Auditorium on Thursday 3rd November, 2022.
The country’s theme for this year’s OH commemoration is “One Health Collaboration for a Healthier Sierra Leone.”
By Saio Marrah
Sierra Leone Parliamentarian, Saa Emerson Lamina, has in the just concluded African, Caribbean and Pacific/European Union (ACP/EU) Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) session called for global cooperation to tackle terrorism.
The JPA is a unique and permanent democratic institution which brings together an equal number of elected Members of Parliament from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and Members of the European Parliament.
By Amanita Sameena Sesay
Some 600 participants in a motorcade of 250 Vehicles and 350 Motor Bikes in the Budapest-Bamako Rally will arrive in Freetown as their finishing line this weekend, the second time the event is hosted by Sierra Leone.
Director of Tourism, Mohamed Jalloh told Journalists during the weekly Government press briefing in Freetown that it is the largest amateur vehicle rally that creates room for people all over Europe to participate in Africa’s biggest humanitarian event.
By Mada Augustine Ngombu
Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone (USL) is this Friday and Saturday conducting interviews for Diploma and Certificate programme students who have applied for Extramural Mural Studies being introduced by the college for the first time outside of Freetown.
Provision has been made for applicants in the districts of Kenema, Bo, and Makeni to be interviewed in their respective areas instead of travelling to Freetown.
By Abass Jalloh
Morrison Kabba has been arraigned in court for allegedly stealing the sum of Le 89,810,000 (eighty-nine million, eight hundred and ten thousand leones) at the dwelling house of Winnifred Lightfoot Taylor.
Kabba, 25, a student, was before the court for the offence of Larceny in a dwelling House.
Freetown: November 2, 2022 (KMN) FOCUS 1000 on Wednesday concluded a two-day training for religious leaders on advocacy on breastfeeding.
The training held in Freetown was designed to capacitate the participants on propagating for particularly exclusive breastfeeding, which is the practice of giving babies breastmilk only from birth up to six months. It is a recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) which says breastmilk is the best source of nutrients for babies within this period.
By Abass Jalloh
Justice Monfred Sesay of High Court No. 2 in Freetown has sentenced 35-year-old Lahai Kamara to 31 years imprisonment after he was unanimously found guilty by a 10-member jury of sexually penetrating and murdering a 4-year-old girl, Amma Mensah.
The convict, Kamara, a building contractor of 41 Bendembu, Upper Goderich Street, Freetown, was charged with one count of Murder.
The prosecution alleged that the accused on the 28th June 2017 murdered Amma at his work place, near the victim's residence.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
