By Francis H. Murray
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone has found Lawyer Augustine Sorie-Sengbe Marrah guilty on a one-count indictment of criminal contempt.
The lawyer was summoned before the court over what they referred to as his unprofessional conduct.
It followed Lawyer Marrah’s failure to honour the court’s directive demanding him to appear before after his publication on social media, which the judiciary referred to as contemptuous and demeaning to the sanctity and integrity of the court.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Civil Society Coalition on Mining and Extractive (CSCME), an advocacy group, has in a position paper called on the government of Sierra Leone to honour the payment of the Diamond Area Community Development Fund (DACDF), which it acceded to.
By Kemo Cham
There have been an outpouring of commendations for Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio after he appended his signature to a piece of legislation that officially repealed the Criminal Libel law, bringing to an end 55 years of struggle by free speech campaigners.
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.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
