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By Mohamed Foday Conteh

The Executive Director of Heal Salone, Joseph Sannoh says 80 to 89 percent surveyed institutions in Sierra Leone do not employ disabled people.

“You cannot tell me that a disabled person cannot be a receptionist or a cashier,” he said.

The Executive Director of the organisation made this assessment on Friday 17^th December 2021 to officially launch the Disable Got Talent Award Night which will take place on the 27^th of December 2021 at Family Kingdom, Aberdeen in Freetown.

By Saio Marrah

 As Audit Service Sierra Leone presents its 2020 annual report to the House of Parliament, the leader of National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has raised a notice of motion for parliamentarians to debate the report.

Dr. Yumkella, while making his submission on Thursday 16^th December, 2021 said MPs have been continuously requesting that they debate the various reports of the Auditor General.

By Politico staff writer

President Julius Maada Bio, has at the Third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, over the weekend encouraged Turkish investment in Sierra Leone, citing the advantages of the investment-friendly tax incentives and policies his government has put in place.

According to State House Communications Unit, President Bio made the call at the two-day Istanbul conference hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to launch a new stage in Turkey’s relations with the African Union and African countries.

By Nasratu Kargbo

An agreement to enable a company TRANSCO transmit  electricity  from Cote D’ Ivoire  to Sierra Leone was on the 17^th December signed in the Ivorian capital between the company and Sierra Leone’s  Acting Director General at the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) Ing. James Rogers.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

“Operation clean up for road safety”, a drive aimed at decongesting the streets of Freetown is set to continue according to officials. The first phase of the operation started on the 6^th of December and ended last Saturday, 18^th of December 2021 with some areas yet to be cleared.

By Idrissa Hilton Gogra, Information Attaché

President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has congratulated the new German Chancellor on his election to that office. In his letter dated 13^th December 2021, President Bio described the victory of Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a ‘manifestation of the trust and confidence the people of Germany have in the manifesto to lead that great nation’.

By Alpha Abu

Health and Sanitation Minister, Dr. Austin Demby has explained about the developments taking place in the health sector during a gathering of media practitioners and civil society activists in Bo recently.

The minister mentioned the recruitment of 4,000 more health workers by the present government and the establishing of a Nursing and Midwifery School in Kenema, Eastern Sierra Leone.