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By Politico Staff Writer

The Government of Sierra Leone has denied claims that it has sold the Sierra Leone Cable Network Limited (SALCAB).

In a statement released by the Ministry of Information on Saturday, the authorities explained that they were working on a plan to unbundle the functions of the company instead.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), is set to increase its testing capacity of the Coronavirus Disease from about 500 to 1,000 daily, with the training of 30 scientists as laboratory technicians.

The trainees were presented with certificates last week after completing two weeks intensive theoretical training.

Sierra Leone recorded 0.60%, 1.45% and 0.82% increase in COVID-19 total cases, total deaths and total recoveries respectively in 48 hours, from Thursday (10:00 am) to Saturday (10:00 am).

By Newnan Anthony Levey in Bo

Final year students of Njala University, one of Sierra Leone’s leading tertiary learning institutions, have called on the government to urgently engage their striking lecturers so that they can resume their examination.

The examination was halted as a result of industrial action by the lecturers who cite a number of concerns they say are affecting them and which the government is not seeking to address.

By Politico Staff Writer

The people of Bonthe District have cited three key development needs as their topmost priorities for the Sierra Leone government to consider.

Representatives of the district made the presentation through the Ministry of Planning, during its nation-wide tour designed to popularise and decentralize the government’s Medium Term National Development Plan (2019-2023) at the Bonthe District Council Hall in Mattru Jong. 

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has in a press statement condemned the persistent spate of diatribes and hate speeches that have been promoted on mostly whatsaap, the most popular social media platform in the country.

By Kemo Cham

Three decades after the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate wild polio virus in the world, Africa attained the milestone last week.

The World Health Organization (WHO) region, comprising 47 countries, was declared free of the most common strain of the virus that causes debilitating experiences for its victims, on Tuesday, August 25.