By Mabinty M. Kamara
A 17 year old girl who was writing the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) on Tuesday, 26th August suddenly went in to labor pain whiles waiting to write her second examination of the day.
The girl who attends the Ansarul Islamic Secondary School in Freetown had just written the Oral exams for English Language and was waiting to write Health Science when she suddenly burst in to tears whiles in clear agony, eyewitnesses told Politico.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) earlier this week issued a warning to its supporters against broadcasting hate speech and incendiary comments, amidst rising political tension in the country.
The last few weeks have witnessed a torrent of viral rhetoric on social media, largely between supporters of the SLPP and its archrival the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC).
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The 25 August heavy down pour in Freetown left over 60 residents in the Portee Community in the eastern part of the capital city homeless, Politico has gathered.
Residents and affected people say the heavy downpour led to the destruction of five houses.
The affected area, which falls within Ward 409 of Constituency 116, was in 2019 declared by the Office of National Security (ONS) as one of the disaster prone areas in the city, yet, apparently, little or no effort was made to evacuate the people.
By Francis H Murray
A twelve member jury has been sworn in before Justice Augustine Musa in the ongoing High Court trial of former Mayor of Freetown Herbert George Williams and the Public Relations Officer of the opposition All Peoples Congress Party in the Western Area Abu Bakarr Daramy on a two-count indictment of murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.
By Francis Murray
Defence lawyers for the leader of the National Democratic Alliance Party Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, who is standing trial for conspiracy and sexual penetration, have said that they are filing an appeal against the judge's ruling to try their client by judge alone.
By Francis H. Murray
Detective Police Constable 1355 Paul Lewis, who was involved in the arrest of some of the irate youths who participated in the recent unrest in the Northern City of Makeni has testified before Magistrate Mark Ngegba in Freetown in the ongoing preliminary investigations into a seven-count charge including conspiracy to commit an offense and carrying offensive weapon without lawful authority, among others.
Two members of the Strategic Team of the COVID-19 Response Transparency Task Force of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the Coordinator of Operations, Emmanuel Koivaya Amara Esq., and the Director of Public Education and Outreach, Patrick Sandi, have on Friday 14th August, 2020 concluded engagements with five (5) District Corona Virus Emergency Response Centers (DiCOVERCs) in the South (Bo, Moyamba, Bonthe and Pujehun) and Eastern (Kenema and Kailahun) regions of Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
