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By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children Affairs, Mustapha Bai Attilla, has called on the country’s women to empower themselves economically and socially as that would make them independent.

He was speaking at a symposium organized by Sierra Leonean women in the media (WIMSAL) to commemorate International Women’s Day.

This year`s commemoration was held on the Theme: ‘Make it Happen-enforce Sexual Offences Act, review 1861 abortion law, stop early marriage and rape.’

By Mustapha Kamara Jn

Prison Watch Sierra Leone, a nongovernmental organization, has donated assorted food items and water and sanitation materials to eleven correctional centers across the country.  

The donation exercise had been ongoing since early this year and last Friday`s presentation at the Approved School, a juvenile detention facility at Thunder Hill in the east end of Freetown, marked the end.

By Mustapha Sesay & Crispina Taylor

The much debated reopening of schools, which was previously slated for March 30, has been shifted to April 14, 2015.

This disclosure was made in parliament Friday where MPs were been updated on the status of Education in the country.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Judge Advocate Otto During, who is presiding over the trial of thirteen soldiers for alleged mutiny, Monday overruled the prosecution in respect of a document which the latter says contains “songs of revolution.”

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The first convicted war criminal eligible for Conditional Early Release by the Residual Special Courts for Sierra Leone (RSCSL) Thursday begged for acceptance back into society.

Moinina Fofana was sentenced to 15 years in jail as part of the trial of the people who bear the greatest responsibility for serious violations of international laws and Sierra Leonean law during the country`s civil war. He was flown in to the country early in the day, after his appeal for early release was approved last year.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

The National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) has casted doubt on the possibility of re-opening schools at the end of this month.

NERC`s chief executive officer Palo Conteh said schools would not be safe for children now as the country was still recording new confirmed cases.

Just last month the government announced it was getting ready to reopen schools on March 30, after realising a considerable success in the battle against a disease that has killed over 3000 people in the country.

By Mustapha Sesay

The main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) finally laid to rest the remains of its former spokesman and Publicity Secretary Musa Tamba Sam on Monday, amidst accusations of selective burial policy implemented by the National Ebola Response Center (NERC).

Tamba Sam was buried at the Ascension Town Cemetery in Freetown following his death from a protracted illness earlier last week.