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By Politico staff writer 

The Foreign Affairs Minister of Hungary Péter Szijjártó, has paid a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor David John Francis, to advance bilateral ties between the two countries.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Sierra Leone has received 52, 800 vials  containing 264,000 doses of Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Africa Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) with support from other major strategic partners.

By Saio Marrah

By Nasratu Kargbo

The University of Sierra Leone (USL) administration has announced the expulsion of 39 students from the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), and suspended 140 others for a period of one and two years , after they were found culpable of  examination malpractices in the 2019/ 2020 academic year.  Nine other students were exonerated whilst seven final year students had their results withheld for a period of one year.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Jamestina King has sentenced one Ibrahim Sesay, 37, to 15 years imprisonment and levied him a fine of 10 million Leones after he was found guilty of sexually penetrating and impregnating a 12 year old primary school pupil.

Sesay was said to have had sexual intercourse with the victim between the 1^st to the 30^th June 2017 in Lumley in the west of Freetown. The abuse allegedly occurred during the holy month of Ramadan.

By Alpha Abu

The Sierra Leone Police and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have mounted an operation in the south of the country, targeting illegal gold miners. The operation was concentrated in two chiefdoms Peje and Kabonde in the Pujehun district where there is said to be a large concentration of illegal mining activities believed to be spearheaded by mostly foreign nationals. 

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has indicted a former Mines Compliance Officer of the National Mineral Agency (NMA) and of No. 26 Azzolini Highway Makeni, Daniel Kapri Serry on five counts of corruption offences.  According to the charge sheert, Serry on different occasions between the 1^st February 2021 and 29^th February 2021 accepted bribe for himself in order to make use of his influence to obtain a benefit from a public body.