News

By Prince Musa

The Office of National Security (ONS), with funds from the UNDP, has conducted a two-day training on disaster management at the District Council Hall on Nyandeyama Road in Kenema. The 14 October training involved participants from the police, military, civil society, fire force and other community stakeholders.

By Prince Musa

Women and girls have been left behind for far too long due to unfavourable traditions and cultural norms, gender activities chide.

The rebuke, which came as part of events commemorating the International Day of the Girl Child, also called for the empowerment of women and girls to enable them participate in all aspects of nation-building and decision-making.

By Umaru Fofana

Today - Monday 17 October 2016 - I travelled to Mile 91 to follow up on Zainab Kamara, the disabled (cripple) woman - a single parent with four children of her own. She has no income besides a backyard garden. 

By Kemo Cham

Police in Kambia say they have arrested about a dozen people in an ongoing operation that has unearthed a major fuel smuggling syndicate.

The operation in the northern district is part of government’s clampdown on fuel smuggling in a larger measure imposed to control the economic crisis the country is going through, says Assistant Superintendent of Police Sydney Ola Williams of the Kambia Police Division.

By Mohamed Massaquoi

Commercial transport drivers in Pujehun, southern Sierra Leone, have suspended a sit-down strike in protest over what they say is the poor road network in the district. They are to meet with district stakeholders on Monday with their two-point demand or resume their strike.

Owing to the poor road network in this opposition heartland, the drivers want to increase transport fares to Bo from Le 20,000 to Le 25,000 and add an extra passenger to the three which cars are allowed in the back seat. 

By Umaru Fofana

I saw love on Sunday 9 October like I had never before seen. No better way to illustrate the biblical and quranic dictate to honour and love our parents. 

I had gone to Mile 91 in northern Sierra Leone with my colleague, Alpha Kargbo, to visit Zainab Kamara, a disabled woman paralysed waist-down. She has four children of her own, two nephews and a niece she is looking after. She has nothing but faith and a small garden with which to look after them. 

By Kemo Cham

The ongoing economic crisis Sierra Leone is battling may have a biblical connotation, according to a Christian pressure group.

The International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem (ICEJ), a global movement of Christians who identify with Israel in its protracted conflict with its Arab neighbors, claims that Sierra Leone’s under development is the result of a decision four decades ago to ditch Israel in favour of the Arabs.