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By Mabinty M. Kamara

Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) has in a press statement announced a new date for the commencement of the Mid-Term National Population and Housing Census, which was initially scheduled for December 4 this year.

The new date for the census, according to a statement from the statistical agency, is April 19^th, 2021.

By Francis H. Murray   

Activities have commenced in the chiefdom headquarters town of Taiama, Kori Chiefdom, in the Southern district of Moyamba for the construction of an Emergency and Trauma Centre.

The project is engineered by a joint partnership with Njala University, Sierra Leone’s Embassy in Seoul, South Korea and the Medical Peace Foundation.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The findings of the recently concluded Commissions of Inquiry (COI) and the government White Paper endorsing its recommendations must not be attributed to tribalism, a group of civil society organizations have told the people of Kenema.

The activists were in the eastern district as part of ongoing efforts by the government and accountability campaigners to depoliticize the fight against graft, after the recent release of the COI report and the government White paper on its recommendations sparked tension along ethnic lines.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

There have been growing calls for an end to the curfew imposed under the current state of emergency instituted in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

These calls have particularly increased in light of the reopening of schools reopen, amidst already difficult situation with the public transportation system in the capital Freetown.

By Francis H. Murray

Magistrate Mark Ngegba has committed to trial in the High Court the case of Mariama Sajor Barrie and Ibrahim Bah, both accused of murdering five-year old Kadijah Saccoh. The magistrate rejected a no-case submission put forward by defence lawyers at the end of preliminary investigation into the matter.

By Kemo Cham

Violence erupted in Conakry on Friday, two days before Guinea’s controversial election.

At least one person, an army commander, died when alleged army mutineers storm a military barracks in Kindia in the northeastern region of the country. Details are sketchy about the incident, which comes on the backdrop of defiance by prodemocracy groups against incumbent president Alpha Conde’s alleged plan to maintain power.

By Francis H Murray

Lawyers representing the 2018 presidential candidate of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, who is standing trial on an eight-count indictment including conspiracy and sexual penetration, say they are concerned about the ‘‘serious health condition’’ of their client. Mansaray is being held on remand at the Pademba Road correctional center.