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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

A hand writing expert attached to the Scientific Support Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Freetown has testified at the court martial presided over by his Lordship, Alhaji Abu Bakarr King, that a signature contained in an alleged forged document did not belong to the accused.

By Mustapha Sesay

Anti-Corruption Commissioner has told a systems review report launch in Freetown that if there is such a due process with the Ebola funds there wouldn’t have been a report of an alarming financial mismanagement.

Lawyer Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara reaffirmed that internal control systems were issues that had surfaced in all accountability reports and had proven to be a major challenge.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara & Mabinti Kamara

Brussels Airlines is to introduce two more flights into its schedule in Sierra Leone, an official said Tuesday.

Brussels Airlines Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Lars Redeligx made the disclosure at a special press briefing giving account of the airlines operations in the last year since the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease.

Brussels Airlines, formerly known as SN Brussels started flying to the country in 2002. The airline had a change of name in 2007.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

Action Aid International has on Tuesday distributed an assortment of items to about half a dozen communities with needy people.

By Mustapha Sesay

In recent times the international community has praised the National Electoral Commission (NEC) for conducting elections they’d described as ‘free and fair’, especially those conducted in 2007 and 2012. Both elections apparently witnessed little direct involvement of outsiders, the international community, into the process.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

Human Rights Defenders Network- Sierra Leone (HRDN-SL), a local human rights advocacy group, has called on government to lift the State of Public Health Emergency, citing its negative effects on the masses.

The organization, among others, accused state authorities of using the emergency regulations to stifle liberty rather than for its expressed purpose.

By Mustapha Sesay

Officials of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism say high cost of flight tickets is impeding the growth of the tourism industry of Sierra Leone.

Presenting the 2014 status report to the parliamentary oversight committee on Tourism, the delegation which included Acting Minister of Tourism Kadie Sesay said this situation has caused the country to lose tourists to other unnamed countries.