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By Septimus Senessie in Kono

The Koidu School for the Blind (KSB) in eastern Sierra Leone is at risk of closure due to lack of funding to run it. 

The school’s administrators say government’s failure to pay their subvention and school fee subsidies has led to a situation of hunger which is forcing pupils to abandon the school.

By Umaru Fofana

Lawyers for Samuel Sam-Sumana have completed filing their case at the ECOWAS Court in Abuja challenging his sacking in March 2015 as Vice President of Sierra Leone.  They are led by Ghanaian lawyer Dr. Raymond Akongburo ATUGUBA and prominent Nigerian lawyer Femi Falana

In a 25-page application, the lawyers are asking the Ecowas Court to order Sierra Leone to pay their client $ 210 million in damages and legal cost. They also want him reinstated as Vice President of Sierra Leone. 

By Umaru Fofana

Tuesday 25 October 2016: 

Good evening all ye Good Samaritans. We have just returned from Mile 91 to carry out a task a good many of you asked of me to do: coordinate the aftermath of the outpouring of grief after that video of Zainab Kamara - a cripple single mother of four - had gone viral and touched your hearts of gold.

By Umaru Fofana

It has just emerged that a Sierra Leonean national was last week arrested in the Turkish capital, Ankara after he had gone to renew his residency permit. He is accused of being a member or follower of the group the Turkish government alleges was behind the attempted coup of July this year. An accusation he vehemently denies. 

David Junusa, who has been legally resident in Turkey for nearly 20 years, is still in detention. 

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Over 2,000 (two thousand) people in Pujehun District, southern Sierra Leone have tested positive for HIV, an official has disclosed.

Emma Sengeh, the HIV and AIDS Supervisor in Pujehun, says the district headquarter town alone and its immediate environs account for over 500 cases. 

She said Pujehun District used to record the highest HIV and AIDS cases in the country with pregnant women accounting for 4.1 % of the current cases. But she would not tell how things compared now. 

By Prince Musa

The District Youth Officer in Kenema is under pressure to explain how he used monies disbursed to him by the local council in the name of projects earmarked for youths.

Ibrahim Jabbie, who coordinates all youth activities in the district, stands accused by officials of the Kenema District Council of failing to properly account for money disbursed to him.  

Council officials said he received the sum of Le10 million meant for youth activities for which he has failed to account. 

By Umaru Fofana

Sierra Leone has risen three places from last year to 95 out of 113 countries ranked around the world on a rule of law index by the World Justice Project. 

It ranks 12 out of 18 countries in Africa scoring 0.45, with 1.0 being the strongest. In other words 45%.