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By Abass Jalloh

Search for Common Ground (SCG), one of the leading organizations that seek to support peace building in conflict areas around the world, is ending its operations in Sierra Leone.

SCG has been operating in Sierra Leone since 2000, doing various interventions as a way of supporting and promoting peace after the country’s civil war.

 Media Coordinator for SCG, Emrys Savage (popularly known as King Fisher), told the state broadcaster yesterday that the organization would now turn its attention to other conflict-prone places.

By Alpha Abu

Representatives of political parties, organisations, and government agencies on Tuesday 7 June 2022 engaged with the staff of the Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) in the validation of the commission’s 3-year Strategic Plan.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

As dates for Sierra Leone's General Elections approach, the international community including ECOWAS has called on media practitioners in Sierra Leone to ensure credible and factual reportage on the electoral activities, noting the powers of the media to make and unmake society.

By Newman Anthony Levey

Dr. Jesse Nyandebo a Lecturer at the Animal Science Department, Njala University, and his wife, Abigail Muana a Nurse were reported to have died after a fire engulfed their residence in Bo on Monday 6^th June 2022.

The incident according to Henry Maada Sam brother to Dr. Nyandebo’s wife who managed to speak to Politico in a grieving mood said they had just celebrated his sister’s birthday the previous day.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The National Coordinator for National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE) Cecilia Mattia has said that in the new Mines and Minerals Development Act, they want to ensure members of parliament, district councils, and paramount chiefs stop receiving surface rent.

By Saio Marrah

Leader of Coalition for Change (C4C) party in parliament, Saa Emerson Lamina, has called for a sitting president to directly choose 50 percent of his appointees, while the rest should be left in the hands of the opposition parties, to ensure inclusive governance of the state.

The MP made this statement while debating the presidential address at the house of parliament.

By Abass Jalloh

The fifth Prosecuting Witness (PW5), Sahr Albert Foday Boima, has disclosed the monetary transactions involved between the Government of Sierra Leone and the country’s UN Permanent Mission in New York, over the Chancery building project, involving Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara and five others.

On Monday 6^th March 2022, during a hearing at the Freetown High Court No. 1 presided by Justice Adrian Fisher, the PW5 testified that four monetary transactions took place between the two parties.