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By Mabinty M. Kamara

Some business people have expressed optimism over the fall in the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Leone, Sierra Leone’s legal tender.

For the first time in many months, the exchange rate of the Dollar to the Leone has dropped to below Le1million. As of Friday, December 6, a 100 US Dollar was buying at Le990, 000 and selling at Le1million, in the Black Market.

By Kemo Cham

Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has again been invited to attend the 2020 Horasis Global Meeting, his office announced last week.

President Koroma received the invitation in person from the chairman of the annual global business confab, Dr. Frank-Jurgen Richter, who visited Sierra Leone as part of an Africa tour, according to a statement issued by the Office of the former President. It said Dr Richter was received by President Koroma at his private residence in the northern town of Makeni.

By Kemo Cham

The Executive of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on Wednesday met with President Julius Maada Bio for the first time since their election into office last July.

The meeting held at State House provided a platform for the SLAJ leadership to thank the President for his government’s effort to repeal the obnoxious criminal libel law.

By Kemo Cham

Despite progress in prevention of malaria, there is the need for more funding, the latest report on the state of Malaria has revealed.
 

By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone has completed its 2019 report on its compliance to the implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR).

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The 2019 elections for the Presidency of the Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WIMSAL) has left the association in turmoil.

The losing candidate, Mariama Kai Fornah, has petitioned the result that declared her opponent, Femi Jarett Coker as President of the association.

Campaign Manager for Fornah’s presidential campaign, Aminata Massaquoi, said her camp was not satisfied with the outcome of the election, citing a “fraudulent” voter list as one of the many irregularities that they believed affected the outcome.

By Anthony Levay

Supreme Minerals Corporation (SL) Limited (SMC), a company prospecting for gold in Sierra Leone, has handed over a three-classroom block to villagers in Lablama, Valunia Chiefdom in the southern district of Bo, where it intends to do the mining.

The company said the school is part of their many contributions to the community as they seek to secure a license to mine there.