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By Politico staff writer

31 August 2022, witnessed the transfer of leadership from the then Acting Vice-Chancellor and Principal,Njala University College, Professor Andrew Augustine Baimba,  to the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Bashiru Mohamed Koroma.

By Alpha Abu

Representatives of Political Parties and the Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) are to tour all the districts of Sierra Leone to help diffuse the political tension, which they all agreed is prevalent in the country.

A well-attended meeting called by the commission that had also key representatives from the Office of National Security (ONS), the Military, and the Police, discussed the violence of August 10 and its ramifications, and how a recurrence could be avoided.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

Almost a week since the state funeral accorded six police officers killed during the 10 August 2022 violent protests, relatives of the slain civilians have expressed frustration that they still do not have their bodies back for burial.

Some of them went to the central Freetown mortuary yesterday and saw the bodies for the first time. They expressed concern over “the lack of access to the bodies of our relatives”.

By Umaru Fofana

The National Disaster Management Agency has confirmed the deaths of eight people in Freetown following the heavy downpours of rain over the weekend.

In two separate incidents, two died after walls fell on their houses, while six crushed after a landslide in the mountainous Looking Town area at Kissy.

By Politico staff writer

Thirty-five Sierra Leoneans on the 29^th of August 2022 graduated as Disease Detectives from Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP), according to a Press Statement from the United States Embassy in Freetown.

The training which was done by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) in collaboration with the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was organized in a bid to increase the number of public health leaders in the country. 

By Nasratu Kargbo

Political Party leaders in a meeting with the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) have agreed to speak to their members about the punishment prescribed to people who register more than once.

In a signed communiqué by various political parties dated 29^th August 2022, they agreed to the conditions and guidelines contained.

By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo

Chairman of the National Council for Civic Education and Development (NaCCED), Kalilu Ibrahim Tutangay has disclosed during the training of trainers in Bo that Civic Education will be taught in schools across the country in September this year.

Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman Tutangay said when President Julius Maada Bio was campaigning; he promised to bring back Civic Education as a subject in Schools. He said the subject used to be in schools but has been missing out for many years.