By Mohamed Foday Conteh
200 pupils along the Peninsula communities in the Western Area have benefitted from school items distributed by a local Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Reachout Salone. The items included bags, school writing materials, uniforms and shoes.
By Politico staff writer
Consultants from the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia have joined two others already in the country to support Statistics Sierra Leone in enhancing a more efficient system for the electronic census that will for the first time be implemented in Sierra Leone later this year.
By Politico staff writer
The Anti-corruption Commission has on the 8th of September 2021 presented systems review report on the Serabu Community Hospital after donor partners, the German Doctors threatened to withdraw their support from the hospital effective 1st August 2021 over corruption allegations and weak management structures. The report covers January 2019 to June 2021.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
As part of the American government’s contribution to the fight against the coronavirus disease in Sierra Leone, the new United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone, David Reimer has on Wednesday 8th September 2021 handed over to the government of Sierra Leone 151,200 (one hundred and fifty-one thousand, two hundred) jabs of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Director General of the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) Mohamed Massaqoui says the authority with support from partners will introduce the use of online securitized legal identity documents next week. He told the weekly government news conference in Freetown on Thursday 9 September 2021 that the measure is aimed at mitigating identity fraud in the country.
By Alpha Abu
In a bid to capacitate electronic media practitioners in the effective transmitting of information on the Right to Food concept, Managers and Producers from 50 radio stations across the country have undergone training by Community Media Network CoMNet. The two day event held at the Culture Radio precincts along the Grafton- Regent highway, also looked at Food and Nutrition Security and Safe Water.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Aviation, Brima Munda Sowa has explained to the Anti -Corruption Court (ACC) court in Freetown of a correspondence between him and first accused the Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration (SLMA), Paul Sobba Massaquoi during his trial and that of 5 others, at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Court in Freetown.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
