By Kemo Cham
The first national symposium on the Seditious Criminal Libel law in Sierra Leone went underway on Tuesday with chorus of calls for speedy action to repeal it.
The law is part of the notorious 51-year-old Public Order Act designed to ensure law and order but which many say has been used to limit civil liberties.
By Kemo Cham
Majority of Sierra Leoneans tend to associate the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to merely an emergency response outfit, rather than the greater regional integration purpose it was created for, a survey has found.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
A local philanthropist has called on parents in the Fiama Chiefdom in Kono District to invest on their children as this could serve as investment on their [parents’] own future.
Sahr Edward Alpha, a civil servant based in Bo, was speaking as he presented scholarship and learning material to six pupils in fulfilment of a promise he’d made.
Mr Alpha made the donation through his self-sponsored family charitable organisation, the Alpha Development Foundation (ADeF).
By Kemo Cham
The death penalty is a bad law which should be done away with, the rights group Amnesty International has said as a fresh debate on the fate of the divisive law in Sierra Leone takes center stage following the sentencing recently of a famous magician.
Baimba Moiforay, better known as LAC, was handed the death sentence alongside co-accused Foday Amara Kamara after the two were found guilty by the Freetown High Court. They conspired to murder popular DJ, Sydney Buckle, better known as DJ Cleff, the court found.
By Kemo Cham
Early this week the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) came under fire for demanding an editor to apologise for been ‘disrespectful’ to parliament.
Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Britain says a minister who holds an executive position in his ruling All People’s Congress (APC) party must choose between the two.
In a statement released over the weekend, Edward Turay [Pictured] said holding both positions concurrently amounted to a conflict of interest.
At present the Minister of Mineral Resources is Deputy Chairman of the APC and Deputy Information Minister is Deputy Publicity Secretary of the party.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
A man has died in a police cell in Kono while awaiting charges for the alleged murder of another man.
Aiah Lavalie, 36, was a farmer and hunter at Sumbaidu Village in Nimiyama Chiefdom, in the eastern Sierra Leone district. He was accused of killing Sahr Ngaujah, 45, last week, after suspecting him of involvement in the theft of his piece of bush meat belonging.
Lavalie was found dead in the evening hours of Saturday, September 17, in a police cell at the Motema Police Division.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
