By Mabinty M. Kamara
President Julius Maada Bio has appointed a new Executive Director for the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration (SLMA). The new boss, Paul Sobba Massaquoi, who was announced on Wednesday, replaces the embattled Ken Philip Sondai.
Prior to Massaquoi’s appointment, Sondai’s Deputy, Festus Cosbie, had been acting as the head of the institution.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Sierra Leone Tourist Board has in a press release countered an assessment report which it referred to as “misleading” about the country.
The report done by a travel guide blog gives Sierra Leone a 50% score on the safety index, which means that it is neither safe nor too dangerous for visitation. The assessment of part of the publication’s 2020 ranking.
By Francis H. Murray
Justice Monfred Sesay of the High Court in Freetown has sentenced Osman Kamara, a fisherman to 15 years imprisonment after convicting him on a one-count charge of sexual penetration of an eight-year-old girl. The judge said the prison term included the 20 months Kamara had already spent on remand during his trial.
The prosecution had alleged that the 23-year-old fisherman sexually penetrated the girl on the 19 April 2018 in Freetown.
By Francis H. Murray
Justice Monfred Sesay has sentenced a 19-year-old student of Baboo College at Allen Town, outside Freetown to 10 years in prison for sexually penetrating a 12-year-old girl. In his ruling, Justice Sesay said that having examined the evidence he was able to establish that what the accused, Allieu Kamara, told the police following his arrest was nothing but a lie to cover up his deed and that the prosecution proved its case beyond all reasonable doubt against the accused for which he was convicted. \\
By Umaru Fofana
A medical team at Sierra Leone’s 34 Military Hospital has "made history" in carrying out a rare surgery on a known COVID-19 patient. In what doctors at the hospital say is probably the first time in West Africa or even the whole continent that such has been done since the pandemic, Chernor Barrie has recovered from the coronavirus and was yesterday discharged from the isolation centre and brought to the main 34 hospital ward where he is recovering from the surgery.
By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
The Ministry of Finance has unveiled an economic plan geared towards cushioning the effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on the Sierra Leonean economy.
The Quick Action Economic Response Program (QAERP) is designed to “save lives and livelihoods”, officials said at the launch of the document on Monday.
By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
The District Emergency Operations Center (DEOC) in the southern Bo District said a patient who tested positive for COVID-19 escaped from an isolation center and is on the run.
The patient who was identified as Michel Amara Kobba, 25, was in isolation in the Government Hospital in Bo City.
The DEOC Spokesperson, Francess Mummy Jabaty, told Politico that Kobba was waiting for his test result when he abandoned the center.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
