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By Ibrahim Barrie

A research conducted by Women on Mining and Extractives (WoME) has revealed that women engaged in artisanal mining within the ages of 18-65 which is considered as working-age population cannot read and write, noting that 18% of those populations are school dropouts.

The report added that minors are mostly found on mining sites when they should be in schools.

WOME therefore called for Government and Civil society actions in order to remedy the situation if they should get the 30 percent quota of women artisanal miners.

By Saio Marrah

The deputy Minister of Gender and Children Affairs, Hindowa Bindi has called on Sierra Leoneans to persuade their different Members of Parliament to support the enactment of the Gender Empowerment Bill.

He made this statement at the launching of the More Than a Woman Project Phase11 that aims at strengthening women’s participation in governance. The event took place in Bonthe district, on Tuesday 2^nd November, 2021.

Politico staff writer

Dr. Ali Fahad Almudhaf, the Kuwait Minister of Education, says his country is open to collaboration with Sierra Leone in the field of education, noting that ‘Sierra Leone had been a reliable friend to the State of Kuwait’. He said a team of experts would look into the Education Agreement to initiate action.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Manuela Harding has sentenced 25-year-old welder, Abdul Rahman Sesay to life imprisonment for sexually penetrating a 6-year-old child in Freetown.

The State Prosecutor, Oladipo Robin-Mason Jr. led three witnesses in evidence.

The girl victim was the first prosecution witness followed by another minor and the police investigator.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

A university student and defence witness, Mariama Edwina Conteh has told Justice Momoh-Jah Stevens that the incest matter between her father and her younger sister was a plot hatched by the victim and her biological mother.

Conteh, daughter of the father and according to court records a sister to the alleged victim was testifying as the second defence witness on Wednesday 3^rd November this year in the ongoing incest matter at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown.

By: Politico staff writer

The Executive Chairman of the Petroleum Regulatory Agency, PRA, Dr. Brima Baluwa Koroma has said in Bo that petroleum products would be in supply throughout Sierra Leone during the festive season. The PRA boss was addressing staff members at the start of a three day retreat at the Gaminess Paradise Hotel on the theme ‘an integrated approach in transforming the downstream petroleum value chain for optimum returns through balancing risks and opportunities’.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Geophysicist at the National Mineral Agency (NMA) Ahmed Swaray says there is available data that identifies favorable sites that are rich in minerals. Speaking during a workshop held on the 4^th November 2021, the Geophysicist explained that the nationwide Airborne Geophysical Survey revealed some areas that are considered to be sites that are more favorable for mining than other and unraveled the country’s mineral deposits.