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Moijueh Kaikai

By Crispina Taylor

Executive Director of the civil society Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) has described as positive President Koroma’s swift move to relieve two of his ministers over public misconduct caught on tape and circulated.

By Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara

Delays in payment of government subsidy have disrupted the operations of some schools which are adopting measures that have weighed down negatively on parents.

As a result of the effect of the Ebola outbreak, the government had volunteered to pay school fees for all school going pupils in the country to cushion the effect on parents.

Some heads of government and government-assisted schools said they were finding it very difficult to run their schools due to the delays.

A cross section of US leadership visitors alumni

Dozens of Sierra Leoneans who have visited the United States as guests of the State Department met on Saturday in Freetown to work towards registering themselves as a charity.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Ahead of the UN’s HIV/AIDS summit in New York this June, the United Nations Women (UNW) is canvassing support from different sectors to cooperate in the fight to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

By Mabinty Kamara

Diabetes is a killer disease that affects a good number of people in Sierra Leone yet it is being ignored by many as if it does not exist, a campaigner against the disease said recently.

Ms Salome Hydes-Jones, founder of Friends of diabetes Sierra Leone, described diabetes is a chronic lifelong condition which required careful monitoring and control.

By Kemo Cham

The Sierra Leone government has welcomed the decision of the US government to include the West African country into its anti-malaria crusade.

Sierra Leone was named alongside Ivory Coast and Cameroon as new entrants into the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) run by the White House. The PMI seeks to eradicate the parasitic disease in Africa and Aisa.

By Kemo Cham

Female lawyers of Sierra Leone have expressed support for calls for an abortion law, urging the government to pass a revised version of the controversial new abortion Act.

In a statement marking International Women’s Day, the umbrella body representing the country’s female lawyers, the Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality, Rights and Social Justice (LAWYERS), proffers some recommendations to be included in the Safe Abortion Act 2016 and make it acceptable by all.