By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Saidu Sesay, Alfred Bangura and Foday Sesay have appeared before Justice Sulaiman Bah at High Court No.2 in Freetown to answer to allegations of raping a businesswoman.
The three men were arraigned on the 25th October this year charged with conspiracy and rape, and who together with other persons unknown committed the crime on 19th October 2018 against the woman whose identity Politico cannot reveal.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The first ever cocoa processing factory to be built in Sierra Leone has been commissioned on Saturday 23rd October 2021 at the Tissor Village in the Kenema District. The cocoa factory is capable to produce 4,000 metric tonnes, enough for the country to export.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Following the release of a video showing a Police Officer assaulting a handcuffed man, youths in Zimmi , a town in Pujehun district where the incident reportedly happened, threatened to cause mayhem but had to be restrained. This was disclosed by Ward 350 Councilor, Abdul Karim Fofanah, who told Politico that the incident on Monday 25th October 2021 sparked so much outrage that they as community leaders, had to talk to the youths, for them not to take the law into their hands.
By John S Conteh in Falaba
The Kabala resident High Court Judge, Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray has sentenced one Gibril Komba Saffa Conteh to 12 years imprisonment for sexually penetrating a 4-year-old girl.
Conteh was arraigned in court on Saturday 23rd October this year in Mongo Bendugu, Falaba district.
The accused was standing trial on a one count indictment under the Sexual Offences Act of 2012 as amended in 2019.
By Ibrahim Barrie
In a major drive to reduce climate change in Sierra Leone, there has been a growing concern and calls for youth involvement in addressing the devastating effects of climate change as well as mitigate climate change by planting more trees than cutting them.
It has emerged that police in Germany are now investigating an attack on Sierra Leonean diplomats at the embassy in Berlin.
According to reports close to the foreign ministry, Sulaiman I. Turay, a Counsellor who is in charge of consular affairs and Idrissa Hilton-Gogra, the Information Attaché were on official assignment to present a document setting out the official position of the government of Sierra Leone on the deportations to the organizers of the demonstration in Munich staged by some failed asylum seekers from Sierra Leone when they were attacked and molested.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
After seven years with scissors in her abdomen following a botched caesarean surgery, Zainab Kamara, 28, finally went under the knife again on Thursday 21st October 2021 to have the surgical instrument taken out by a visiting foreign doctor. The operation took place at the Massanga Hospital in Tonkolili district, northern Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
