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IMC Chairman Alieu Kanu

By Kemo Cham

The Chairman of the Independent Media Commission (IMC), Alieu Kanu, has said the leadership of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) misdirected its dissatisfaction over disagreement on his appointment.

Betty receiving her cheque

By Mabinty M Kamara

Betty Hooks, a middle aged woman, has made history by becoming the first female winner of the ongoing Mercury International 4/50 jackpot lottery.

By Kemo Cham

Journalists and media rights campaigners have condemned the closure of a radio station by Liberian authorities.

The Monrovia-based Voice FM, considered as critical of the government, was ordered shut down last week Monday by the Justice Ministry through the Civil Law Court in Monrovia, on the request of the Liberia Telecommunication Authority (LTA).

The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists in a statement called on the Liberian government to reverse the decision.

Winners of the gala, Ngayah FC.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

By Kemo Cham 

The Sierra Leone government will do everything to get back its diplomat kidnapped in Nigeria, a spokesman has said.

Deputy High Commissioner Major General Claude Nelson Williams was reportedly kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna on Friday.

Agibu Jalloh, Outreach Coordinator at the Office of Government Spokesman in the Ministry of Information, told Politico that the government were already in touch with their Nigerian counterparts who he said had promised to get back the kidnapped official and his driver safely.

stray dogs on Lumley beach

By Umaru Fofana

A campaign to eradicate rabies in Sierra Leone starts in Freetown on Monday 4 July.

Figures at the ministry of agriculture, which deals with animal health, say some 500 people die of rabies in the country every year.

By Mustapha Sesay

The World Bank has approved over US$ 45 million as loan for two projects aimed at supporting and strengthening service delivery in Sierra Leone’s health sector.

The projects will be co-financed by the World Bank and the International Development Association with the Bank providing the biggest chunk under a credit agreement with the government of Sierra Leone.

The projects will look at challenges that had weakened the health sector before and after the devastating Ebola outbreak in the country in 2014 - 2015.