By Kemo Cham
Almost the entire leadership of the District Coronavirus Emergency Response Center (DICOVERC) in Sierra Leone’s southern Pujehun District has gone into quarantine after the driver of the Coordinator tested positive for the virus.
DICOVERC Coordinator, Mohamed Kemokai and seven other members of his team comprising the co-team of the district’s response effort, went into quarantine over the weekend, a spokesman said.
By Francis H. Murray
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the bail application of the convicted former defense minister, Alfred Palo Conteh, who is serving a twenty-four month jail term for illegal possession of firearms.
Conteh was convicted last month after about three months of trial on charges including treason and illegal firearms possession. He was cleared of the treason charges but found wanting for the firearms possession. His lawyers are appealing against the conviction for firearms possession.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
President Julius Maada Bio has highlighted progress his government has made in revamping the tourism industry in Sierra Leone, in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
He was speaking at the launch of a bailout package for the hospitality sector.
By Kemo Cham
More signs of crack within the leadership of the embattled opposition Coalition for Change (C4C) party has emerged with the imposition of a court injunction against its current executive committee.
The High Court in Freetown slammed the injunction on Tuesday, 12 August, ordering the executive committee of the country’s third largest party in Parliament to desist from undertaking any official activity until a decision on a petition is taken by the court, according to courts document seen by Politico.
By Francis H. Murray
Kadija Olamatu Seisay, former Deputy Minister of Works, Housing and Infrastructure (MWHI) under the All People’s Congress (APC)-led administration of Ernest Bai Koroma, has been found guilty of one-count of misappropriation of public property in a case brought against her by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone, Dr Sunil Saigal, is set to leave Sierra Leone after spending four and half years in the country.
Dr Saigal, who would also be proceeding on retirement after 35 years of service with the United Nations (UN), met with President Julius Maada Bio on Wednesday to bid farewell.
By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo
As Sierra Leone joins other countries to commemorate the International Youth Day, the Ministry of Youth Affairs has begun the review process of the National Youth Policy.
The review process started on Wednesday, August 12 in Bo with a discussion which brought together youth representatives from the four districts in the southern region: Bo, Moyamba, Pujehun and Bonthe.
Officials say similar sessions on the draft youth Policy 2020
will be held in other regions of the country.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
