Save The Children health workers readying to enter the Ebola wards
By Mustapha Kamara
Court Martial frees soldiers in Sierra Leone
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
The Judge Advocate at the on-going court-martial has acquitted and discharged one of the 14 soldiers standing trial for conspiracy to commit mutiny and incitement to mutiny.
Judge Otto During told RSLAF/18164718 Corporal Alex Jibao Koroma that he had “no case to answer before the court".
He said Corporal Koroma raised an alibi in his statement to the police when he said he was on leave on the 10th of August, 2013, the date on which the prosecution claimed that the alleged mutiny had taken place.
Teenage pregnancy concerns girls in Sierra Leone
By Bampia James Bundu
Several girls who attended a one-day training yesterday on the effect of Ebola on education and teenage pregnancy in the country have expressed concern over teenage pregnancy and the lack of education.
Schools have not reopened since July because of concerns of the spread of Ebola.
The training was organised by Community Action to Restore Lives (CARL).
ECOWAS army chiefs meet on Ebola
ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) met at an Extraordinary Session in Accra yesterday “to articulate military contributions to strengthen regional response against the Ebola outbreak which has inflicted huge humanitarian and economic tolls on the region” according to an ECOWAS press release.
SLPP reassures quarantined homes
By Jenneh Braima
Executive of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) of Constituency 103 in Kissy, eastern Freetown has donated chlorine, food and cooking items to homes undergoing the Ebola 21-day quarantine period.
SLAJ condemns IMC appointments
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists has condemned the recent presidential appointment of a new Chairman of the Independent Media Commission “without seeking the ‘advice of SLAJ’ as provided for in Section 4(1) of the IMC Act, 2000 as amended, which says: ‘The President shall appoint the Chairman and Commissioners of the IMC acting on the advice of SLAJ’” the association states in a statement.
SLAJ had previously in a general meeting condemned the appointments of two commissioners for the same reason.
SLAJ welcomes criminal defamation ruling
The African Court on Human and People’s Rights has ruled that jailing people on criminal defamation is a violation of the right to free expression, a move that has been welcomed by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ).
The ruling was made on Friday 5 December in a case of journalist ‘Konaté v Burkina Faso’ saying that imprisonment for defamation violates the right to freedom of expression and that criminal defamation laws should only be used in restricted circumstances.
