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By Alpha Abu

Report of a study by a local research group, Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) and the British NGO, Oxfam says significant progress has been made in education than health in Sierra Leone. The assessment was contained in a report highlighting “citizens’ feedback on the state of health and education services” that IGR’s partners the World Bank officially launched in a committee room of the Sierra Leone Parliament on Wednesday 24 March 2021.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

As a way to ascertain whether the public has been convinced about the use of COVID -19 vaccines, a team from NACOVERC in collaboration with the District Health Management Team in Kenema has started monitoring the vaccination exercise in the district.

The delegation went to the Government Hospital, the Second Battalion military barracks and Panguma hospital in the lower Bambara chiefdom.

By Politico Staff Writer

The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, HRCSL has called on “government, Political Parties, Development Partners, Civil Society Organisations and the general public to work together to prevent a recurrence of war and any other forms of violence that would destabilize the nation”.

By Alpha Abu

A senior  civil society figure in the Southern region, Mustapha Kpaka has on behalf of activists in that part of the country condemned the riotous behaviour of some students attending the  Ahmaddiyya Muslim Secondary School in Bo city which resulted in the arrest of twenty-one young people, many believed to be pupils of the school.  

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

Lecturers from Njala University, School of Midwifery in Bo and Eastern Polytechnic in Kenema have undertaken intensive training on integrated diseases surveillance and response supported by the World Health Organization.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The National Commission for Social Action with funds from Islamic Development Bank has launched phase II of the Sierra Leone Community Driven Development (SLCDD) Project dubbed Gie trenk (strengthen) at Lower Bambara Chiefdom in Kenema district. 

By Saio Marrah

The Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Mohamed Sidi Tunis, has said Sierra Leone’s hosting of the implementation of the ECOWAS community levy will make the country visible internationally as the local and international media are focused on happenings in Freetown.