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For the second time in less than a year, the Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA), Ibrahim Sannoh, has been suspended from office by the organization’s Board of Directors. The period of suspension is indefinite.

At an “emergency meeting” on 3 November, the board found Mr. Sannoh “liable of insubordination to the person and authority of the chairman, board of directors, disrespect to the deputy minister…deliberately stalling the implementation of a contract between the government of Sierra Leone and Autospect (SL) Limited”.

By Alpha Abu

Condolence messages have continued to pour in following the fuel tanker explosion that has claimed some one hundred lives. Sierra Leone’s Missions around the world have dispatched messages of support. The Embassy in Conakry, Guinea says it “applauds the Doctors, Nurses and all medical professionals that have been working very hard to save lives and handle the victims”

By Saio Marrah

Ibrahim Sorie Sow, a student of the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), has called on the government, individuals and organisations to help sponsor his surgery on his broken hand in India.

Sow said he had an accident on the 19^th September this year, when a motorbike collided with another which led to his current state.

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.