By Saio Marah
The congested slum settlement of Susan’s Bay and parts of Marbella another slum in Freetown were on the night of Wednesday 24 March 2021 engulfed by fire that has left hundreds of residents homeless. What caused the fire is yet to be determined as well as the extent of the damage. Fire fighters battled late into the night to put out the raging inferno.
By Francis H. Murray
The Minister of Water Resources, Philip Karimu Lansana has said that the country’s water catchment areas have been endangered by the “deliberate” activities of encroachers which have posed serious challenges to the sustainable water supply across the country.
By Francis H. Murray
The Minister of Information and Communication Mohamed Rahman Swarray has disclosed that Sierra Leone is set to benefit from the first National Cyber Incident Reporting Center as part of the Cyber security package to the country.
Speaking at the weekly press conference organized by the Ministry on Thursday 25th March 2021, he revealed that: “for the first time in the history of our country, Sierra Leone through my lobbying will benefit from the first National Cyber Incident Reporting Center.’’
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.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
