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By Saio Marrah

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) in collaboration with the European Union (EU) in Sierra Leone and partners are set to embark on the annual EU Beach Clean-up event.

This year’s annual beach clean-up event will take place on Saturday 16^th October, 2021 at the Lumley-Aberdeen Beach in Freetown.

Sierra Leone's former president, Ernest Bai Koroma on Monday 11 October met with the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General (UNSRSG) for West Africa and the Sahel, Ambassador Mahamet Saleh Annadif.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The President of the Sierra Leone Union on Disability Issues, Santigie Kargbo has expressed dissatisfaction over delay in the allocation of subventions to schools with special needs children, noting that their members will take to the streets in protest if there’s continued delay in the allocation.

The warning came despite the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School Education (MBSSE), providing the third and fourth quarter subventions for 2021.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Musu Damba Kamara has sentenced one Mohamed Kanu, an officer attached to the Operational Support Division (OSD) of the Sierra Leone Police to 15 years imprisonment over the 15^th March 2015 killing of  a soldier, Salifu Turay at Gloucester Village in the Western Area Rural District.

By Politico staff writer 

Sergey E. Cheremin a minister of the Government of Russia has called for Sierra Leone’s support towards their bid to host the 2030 EXPO. He made the call on Monday 11 October 2021 while presenting the bid to Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Mohamed Yongawo, at the Ministry’s conference hall in Moscow.

The president of the Sierra Leone Football Association, Thomas Daddy Brima and the Executive Director of the National Sports Authority, Dr Kenneth Brima have been summoned to appear before the Anti-Corruption Commission on Friday.

Politico can authoritatively reveal that it is in connection with the conclusion of investigations bordering on the use of Le 6 billion allocated by the government of Sierra Leone for the national football team’s AfCON 2020 qualifier against Benin in June.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

A certain organization is currently registering under very suspicious circumstances, residents of Freetown for a fee of Le 20,000. The process is taking place at the Arc Community Centre located over the well- known Samba Gutter at Robert Street in Freetown.