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Ibrahim Tommy

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

The Center for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL), a civil society organization in Sierra Leone, has blamed government for the increase in sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) cases over the last three years.

Moijueh Kaikai, gender and children's affairs minister

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

The Line Manager at the Family Support Unit of the Sierra Leone Police in Pujehun says sexual abuses against women and girls in Pujehun District have increased in number in recent months.

Gibril Gottor

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is presently investigating a journalist suspected of impersonating an ACC officer.

Journalist Gibril Gottor, who is presently in detention at an unknown location, was arrested over the weekend in Kambia.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Junior staffers at the University of Sierra Leone Tuesday appealed for improved conditions of work, including certain allowances enjoyed by their seniors.

They made the call at a meeting with the top management of the University, held at the amphitheatre and attracting workers from the three constituent colleges of the university.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara in Freetown and Mohamed T. Massaquoi in Pujehun

Sierra Leone is yet to reopen its land border with Liberia since it tightened security measures regulating movements between the two countries, following the outbreak of the Ebola disease, officials said Tuesday.

This followed reports that Liberia opened its land border with the country on Sunday, after closing it for about six months in response to the same epidemic.

Primary school pupils in the Western Rural district

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

As Sierra Leone settles down to implement its 3.4 trillion budget for the 2015 fiscal year, the Director of Budget in the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development says the government is contemplating cutting down on unnecessary expenditures as an integral part of its post-Ebola recovery strategy.

Matthew Dingie made this revelation as the Budget Advocacy Network (BAN) launched a report indicting the government on its spending in the face of the ongoing Ebola epidemic.