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By Kemo Cham

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on Sierra Leone’s medium-term growth prospects, with the economy projected to contract by 2.3 to 4.0 percent in 2020 due to disruption in global trade, travel restrictions and domestic restrictions on mobility, a new World Bank report shows.

The report launched recently in Freetown notes that the fiscal and current account deficits were expected to increase due to increased crisis-related spending, while inflation is also expected to rise. 

By Kemo Cham

The Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL) has called on the media to desist from publishing or airing advertisement of pharmaceutical products without its authorization.

The warning issued recently came through a statement from the Independent Media Commission (IMC), which said that the PBSL raised the concern amidst proliferation of pharmaceutical products and unchecked advertisement by both the print and electronic media.

Youth in Action for Development on 30th July launched a community-based sensitization campaign against Covid-19 and distributed food and non-food items to Konjo Buima community, Malegohun chiefdom, Kenema district.

The campaign entails mainly a vivid explanation on how the rural dwellers can prevent themselves from Covid-19 and how to adopt such preventive practices into their everyday lives.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

President Julius Maada Bio has expressed optimism in winning the fight against corruption, noting that it is a must for the survival of Sierra Leone.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The opposition Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) has called for the release on bail of its leader and chairman, Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, who has been in police custody for alleged sexual penetration of a minor. 

Mr Mansaray, a former Presidential contender, in the 2018 general elections, was detained by police at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Freetown when he honored an invitation for questioning about a case of an alleged sexual penetration of a 15 year old girl in Kono District.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

People residing in the east end of Freetown have reacted with mix feelings to a recently launched operation by the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), dubbed: ‘Operation Restore Order’.

The Operation, according to the SLP, is aimed at ensuring that drivers of commercial motor vehicles plying the east end of the city to Waterloo take passengers to their actual destinations. It followed widespread complaints by commuters of exploitation by commercial transport drivers.

By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo.

A lot of challenges were reported from the just concluded National Primary School Examination (NPSE), mostly in the rural areas, of which Koyeima Secondary School in Valunia Chiefdom in Bo district is not an exception.