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By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

Prosecutors in Finland have lodged an Appeal against the acquittal of former Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Commander, Gibril Massaquoi.

The Turku Court of Appeal has given permission for further proceedings against Massaquoi who is a Finnish national of Sierra Leonean descent, for alleged atrocities he committed during the Liberian civil war.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Bill entitled the “Political Parties Regulation Commission Act, 2022” now before Parliament has proposed that an association can only register as a Political Party when they have 800 members across the country.

The Parliamentary Leader of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella supported the clause, stating that a group of people less than 50 may want to come together and form a party just to benefit from government subventions. 

By Saio Marrah

Parliament of Sierra Leone has enacted into law the Mines and Mineral Development Act of 2022 that seeks to improve provisions for the socio- economic benefit of the country.

The new law is also geared towards the facilitation of transparent and accountable management of the mineral sector in accordance with international best practice.

The bill which was passed into law on Tuesday 9^th August, 2022, also caters for improved employment and practices in the mineral sector. 

By Saio Marrah

The 2021 Performance Audit Report published last month has highlighted a number of challenges affecting the successful implementation of the School Feeding Project (SEP), noting that only 37 percent of the 100 percent targeted by the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) has been achieved.

“Analysis of documents submitted by the School Feeding Secretariat disclosed that the GoSL has still not been able to meet its target of feeding 100% of children in pre-primary and primary government and government-assisted schools,” it reads.

By Abass Jalloh

The African Development Bank (ADB) has approved a thirty-six million dollars ($36,000,000) rice farming project targeting five thousand (5,000) Sierra Leonean farmers within a five-year period.

The project will be implemented in the districts of Bonthe and Pujehun by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

By politico staff writer

A Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) from the Sierra Leone Parliamentary Delegation to the African, Caribbean, Pacific, and European Union (ACP-EU) headed by Mathew Sahr Nyuma, Leader of Government Business has urged stakeholders to keep the school environments clean and safe.

The joint oversight was meant to assess EU-completed projects in the regions where construction of major bridges and rehabilitation of old classrooms and construction of new classroom blocks have taken place.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Mohamed Lamin Tarawally has presented a bill in Parliament that seeks to replace the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) Administrator and Register General with the Executive Secretary as Secretary to the Commission.

The bill which was entitled "The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) Act, 2022, for democratic governance” was presented to Sierra Leone’s parliament for debate on Tuesday 9^th August 2022.