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Politico staff writer 

The Bo district Coronavirus Response Centre Coordinator has in an engagement with the national response body, NaCOVERC said they have been robustly meeting residents across the district on the new COVID -19 preventive measures announced by President Julius Maada Bio and the need for the people to be vaccinated but that insufficient vaccines is a challenge. 

David Fortune called on the national COVID -19 response body to ensure that vaccines were available for the population to access. 

By Politico staff writer

As part of the ongoing rural electrification project in Sierra Leone, the Minister of Energy Alhaji Kanja Sesay has on 24th July 2021 powered up the solar mini-grid in Madina town, Kambia district.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Cosmotina Jarrett has on the 29^th July 2021 at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Court in Freetown sent one Gibrilla Kamara and Michael Abdulai on remand for selling fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates.

Both Kamara and Abdulai were staff of the Western Area Urban District Coronavirus Response Centre (DICOVERC). According to the ACC, both accused were serving as Mobilisation Officers.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Consultant at the Attorney General’s Office, Lahai Momoh Farma has admitted that no specific decision has been made regarding those inmates who remained on death row before the bill abolishing the death penalty was passed by the Sierra Leone Parliament on 23 July 2021. 

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Former Presidential candidate for the APC in the 2018 elections, Samura Kamara was on the 28^th July 2021 at the Court of Appeal in Freetown to challenge the ‘adverse’ findings of the Commissions of Inquiry (COI) led by Justice Biobele Georgewill, incriminating him.

By Alpha Abu

The President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla says the recently constituted interim executive of journalists covering proceedings in the house of parliament would not be recognised by the association. 

Speaking yesterday afternoon to Politico on the issue, Nasralla said Parliament had no right to select an interim executive for members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery as there was already in place an executive representing the press corps in the house.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Chairperson Parliamentary Committee on Fisheries and Marine Resources, Neneh Lebbie has expressed concern over the increase in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities in Sierra Leonean waters. She said she was reliably informed by the indigenes of Sulima that boats often come from Liberia to fish at night and leave in the morning hours.