By Francis H. Murray
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone has ordered the arrest of Lawyer Augustine Sorie – Sengbe Marah on the grounds of non- compliance with the court’s order.
In a unanimous decision on Wednesday taken at the Law Court’s building in Freetown, the panel of judges – four Supreme Court judges and one Court of Appeal Judge – ordered that Mr. Marah be denied access to all the courts in Sierra Leone.
By Mabinty M.Kamara
Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) and the elections monitoring group, National Elections Watch (NEW) are at loggerheads over the planned conduct of the Mid-term Population and Housing Census.
The census which was initially scheduled for this December was last week rescheduled to April 2021.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
As power outage across the city intensifies, citizens across the country have expressed dissatisfaction over the situation, and are therefore calling on the management of Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) to step up their service provision.
The last one month in Sierra Leone has witnessed intermittent power supply in Freetown, which, according to residents, has had great effect on their businesses and general livelihoods.
By Kemo Cham
Freetown’s mayor, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has been named among five people and institutions as recipients of the 2020 Leadership Award for their efforts towards improving public health in Africa.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Sierra Leone have in a press statement called on the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to protect people who speak and act against corruption.
By Kemo Cham
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio is expected to sign the legal instrument repealing the Criminal Libel law today, Politico has learnt.
Bio will append his signature to the bill at a ceremony scheduled to take place at State House in Freetown. The act will bring to an end decades of campaign to expunge one of the most draconian laws in the country.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
