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By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone’s Parliament has passed into law the code on breastmilk substitutes, in a major breakthrough for nutrition campaigners.

The “Breast Milk Substitutes Act 2020" was unanimously passed on Wednesday, July 21, following a debate on it by lawmakers in the well of parliament.

The new piece of legislation was designed to ensure safe and adequate nutrition for infants and young children by promoting breastfeeding through the regulation of the marketing of breast-milk substitutes, among others.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Simeon Allieu has handed down sentence on one Mohamed Sheku Turay, former staff of the Operations Department of Rokel Commercial Bank (SL) Limited, on charges of misappropriation of public revenue contrary to Section 26(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Act of 2008, as amended in 2019.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Ministry of Social Welfare in collaboration with Post Ebola Recovery Social Investment Fund (PERSIF) has on the 22^nd July 2021 ended a two- day training for social workers on awareness raising in communities that were badly affected by the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Kenema.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

A German medical non-governmental organization known as GERMAN DOCTORS has levelled allegations of corruption against the Serabu Hospital in Bo District.

In a letter addressed to the Bishop of the Bo Diocese which owns and runs the facility, GERMAN DOCTORS alleged that the hospital faced both structural and corruption problems as observed by them while they had been working there.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

Police in Kamakwie, the headquarter town of Karene district are investigating the activities of alleged gang of armed robbers after arresting them in the early hours of Sunday 18^th July 2021 in the home of one Lamin with machetes and other dangerous instruments.  

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Lawyers representing former President Ernest Bai Koroma have filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking clarification and interpretation of some constitutional provisions linked to the report of the Justice Biobele Georgewill’s Commission of Inquiry and the subsequent government whitepaper. Among other things the commission accused the former president of abusing his office and was unable to account for over Le. 4 billion which the commission believed surpassed his emoluments and legal earnings.

By Politico staff writer

Executive members of an organisation representing landowners engaged in a long drawn out dispute with Socfin Agriculture Company in Malen Chiefdom in the Pujehun district have appealed to President Julius Maada to intervene so as to realise “a win-win outcome”.