By Alpha Abu
The Chairman and Leader of National Unity and Reconciliation Party (NURP), Dr.Jonathan PJ Sandy says there should be a national reflection, twenty years after the country’s civil war officially ended on the 18th January, 2002. Speaking to Politico ahead of a series of events planned by NURP for the next one week in memory of the strife that lasted for eleven years, Sandy said it should be a national reconciliation week.
By Alpha Abu
Players of the country’s national football team, Leone Stars, have taken leave of President Julius Maada Bio as they head for the African Cup of Nations tournament in Cameroon, their first in a quarter of a century.
The president told the players to make the country proud by lifting the trophy. He said Sierra Leone had been in the football wilderness for far too long and believed it was time they changed the narrative.
By Politico staff Writer
AdvocAid, a Civil Society Organisation in Sierra Leone is investigating the death of a 17-month-old baby in a police cell in Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone.
“AdvocAid will be investigating this matter further and calls on the Independent Police Complaints Board and Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone to also undertake an investigation,” the organisation said in a press release issued on the 27th December 2021.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
As delegates of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) endorsed President Julius Maada Bio to hoist the party’s flag in the 2023 General Elections, the president has assured party supporters of victory again against their arch-rivals, the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party.
The endorsement came on the first day of the SLPP convention which took place in Bo from 29th and 30th of December 2021.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
As part of setting up the party’s structures ahead of the 2023 general elections, the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has concluded the election of its Executive officials at its convention held from the 29th to 30th of December 2021 in Bo, southern Sierra Leone.
15 positions were contested by 45 aspirants. Three among the fifteen positions went unopposed including that of incumbent Umaru Napoleon Koroma who retained his post as the Party’s Secretary-General.
By Nasratu Kargbo and Prince J. Musa in Kenema
Drivers, car owners and passengers have expressed fear over what seems to be a fuel shortage in the last few days in across Sierra Leone. Many have reported that they observed signs of fuel scarcity since New Year’s Eve; this has caused black marketeering and led to increase in transportation fares.
By Alpha Abu
Survivors of the Wellington Fuel tanker vehicle explosion have received food supplies from the Sierra Leonean community-based in Australia. A small team representing the donors on Tuesday 4th January 2021 first went to Connaught, 34 Military and Rokupa Hospitals to distribute rice, cooking oil, purified water, tomato paste, tea, and sugar to people still admitted at the three health facilities, following the inferno that claimed over 150 lives.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
