By Mohamed Foday Conteh
The German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Mano River Union (MRU) has completed a two-day in-person and virtual training of Criminal Investigations and Prosecution Authorities on money laundering and terrorism financing through the smuggling of precious stones and metals in the MRU.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Parliament of Sierra Leone will today 2nd July end the debate on the speech delivered President Julius Maada Bio in Parliament on the 18th May 2021. The debate started on the 28th June 2021.
Speaking at the well of parliament on Thursday 1st July 2021, Member of Parliament, Abdul Murray Conteh of constituency 130 thanked President Julius Maada Bio for “an inspiring speech”.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Kenema District Health Management Team (DHMT) has on the 30th June, 2021, received sixty solar panels for use in the Peripheral Health Units across the district.
Presenting the items to the team, the representative from Tara Energy, the company charged with the installation of the solar panels at the PHUs, Mohamed Kamara said the support was due to the many concerns from health sector workers on the lack of adequate electricity in the health facilities.
Dozens of members and supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party yesterday thronged their party headquarters in Freetown to register their disapproval over the state of internal democracy within the oldest political party in the country.
Carrying placards denouncing any further extension of the mandate of the party’s national executive council, the protesters said they wanted new elections to be conducted to choose their leaders since the current holders of the positions had already been extended three times.
The Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr. Eldred Tunde Taylor has on Sunday 27th June 2021 commissioned 100kw solar grid in Sahn town, Malen chiefdom, Pujehun district.
Speaking at the ceremony, Dr. Taylor said Jendema, Fairo, and Blama Massaquoi communities in the Pujehun district will benefit from the mini solar grid and that Pujehun township’s electrification project is ongoing. He assured that the mini solar grid is a reliable source of electricity.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Data on the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of May 2021 released by Statistics Sierra Leone has revealed an increase in the inflation rate from 9.60 percent point in April to 9.80 percentage points in May, up by 0.20 percentage points.
However, the country still maintains its single-digit inflation rate recorded in the month of March 2021, a figure that was reported by officials, as the lowest in six years.
By Alpha Abu
Health authorities in Liberia have banned mass attendances at funerals across the country and have restricted them to only funeral homes. This latest order is an addition to other restrictive measures put in place by officials in the neighbouring country to curb the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen an upsurge in COVI-19 cases in many parts of the world including Sub-Saharan Africa.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
