By Nasratu Kargbo
Psychoactive substances have claimed the lives of many youths, resulting in two thousand nine hundred and fifty-five (2,955) persons registered for treatment at the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital in 2023, according to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Sartie Kenneh.
By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah
Press Secretary, Yusuf Keketoma Sandi has said that nine Kush users have escaped from the Rehab Centre at Peace Keeping Mission Centre in Hastings outside Freetown.
By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah
The National Tourist Board yesterday 19th March commenced the demolition of over thirty bars and restaurants at the Lumley beach in Freetown.
Speaking in an interview with Politico on the 18th of March this year, the Public Relations Officer of the National Tourist Board, Rabbi Kai Bockarie said a notice letter was earlier sent to beach property owners, informing them to remove permanent and makeshift structures from the beachfront.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
A delegation of seven Executive Directors from the African Development Bank (ADB) Group is in Sierra Leone on a five-day impact assessment visit and consultation mission aimed at deepening the partnership between the Bank and the West African Nation.
The delegation paid a visit to one of the Governors of AfDB who is also Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Sheku Fantamadi Bangura.
By Alpha Abu
The decision by Liberia’s Lower House of Parliament to endorse a bill propagating the setting up of a War Crimes Court to try alleged perpetrators of extreme violence during the country’s Civil War has sparked intense debate in the West African country.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Apart from their insistence that there should be no increment in the toll gate fee, over hundred and seventy Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have demanded that one of the three toll gates is removed together with the barricades created along roads that could have been alternative routes.
By Nasratu Kargbo
A group of campaigners in Sierra Leone has issued a solidarity statement regarding the ongoing situation in Palestine, stating that they stand with the people there in the face of assaults by Israel.
The statement was issued by the group on the 14th March 2024.
The campaigners in their statement explained that despite Sierra Leone being far away from Palestine, they are concerned about what they described as the ongoing genocide which they note speaks to Sierra Leone’s story and that they cannot look away.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
