By Francis H. Murray
56 cases are up for trial at the new criminal session of the High Court in Sierra Leone with offences including murder, wounding with intent, robbery and sexual penetration. All those indicted for sexual penetration pleaded not guilty before Justice Reginald Fynn on Monday 25th January.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The regional manager (east) of the Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO), Lanasana Sawei has expressed frustration over the damage caused to his company’s installations by the road construction firm, PAVI-Fort which is constructing township roads in Kenema.
The Pakistani president, Dr. Arif Alvi has called for continued and enhanced trade, investment defense and cultural cooperation between his country and Sierra Leone.
He said Pakistan is home to some of the world’s most reserved Buddhist sites, and expressed hope that tourists from friendly countries like Sierra Leone would visit those places, reports Elizabeth Davidson Campbell, the information attaché at the Sierra Leone embassy in Iran.
By Francis H. Murray
Dr. Steven Velabo Shongwe the WHO Country Representative in Sierra Leone has urged the government and its development partners to strengthen public health and safety measures in a bid to defeat the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ACC North-East Region Office has engaged In-Charges of various peripheral health units across Bombali District at a meeting in Makeni. The ACC Senior Public Education Officer Abdulai Saccoh recognized the "enduring sacrifice” of the health workers in delivery primary health care to inhabitants in remote communities.
President Julius Maada Bio has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to “urgently create a special committee to look into the unsolved Yenga matter between the two countries through diplomatic engagement with a view to finding a lasting solution to this long-standing boundary dispute”.
He was addressing the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State a few days after reports appeared on social media that Guinean forces had mounted an incursion and attempted to erect boundary lines in the disputed town.
Sierra Leone will not be using its own money to service its debt owed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this year (2021) and next (2022) because it has been taken on by the European Union.
That leaves some $39 million in the hands of government to use in competing priority areas.
The head of the European Union Delegation in Sierra Leone, Tom Vens says his organisation has agreed to take on the servicing of the debt because of the impact of Covid19.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
