Feature

By Khadi Mansaray

The best thing about Sierra Leone is its women. We are also the most underutilized resource we have. We are courageous, resilient and brave and more. We are also strong wise and beautiful. We are of the nation’s soul.

I’m proud to be a Sierra Leonean woman. We’ve had more than our so many tragedies. The war, natural disasters and climate change, epidemics and pandemics, but we survive.

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 0.33% and 1.18% increase in COVID-19 total cases and total deaths respectively in 48 hours, from Tuesday (10:00 am) to Thursday (10:00 am).

By Kemo Cham

After five years of operation, the UK-funded governance initiative, Strengthening Accountability and Building Inclusion [SABI], is drawing to a close, and the implementing agencies are now focusing on the sustainability of the gains realized through the project.

Officials from Christian Aid and FOCUS 1000 say Sierra Leoneans must ensure that the gains made in the last five years through the project are sustained.

BY ALFRED KAMANDA ESQ. & ALPHA UMARU BAH

The principal inferior court of judicature of Sierra Leone is the Magistrates’ Court. In accordance with the Courts Act, No 31 of 1965, Sierra Leone is constituted into Judicial Districts, and Section 4 of the Act states that there shall be constituted Magistrates’ Courts in and for every judicial district.

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 0.08% and 0.15% increase in COVID-19 total cases and total deaths respectively in 72 hours, from Saturday (10:00 am) to Tuesday (10:00 am).

By Ashmieu Bah

Wednesday 10 February 2021. We were in our normal newsroom production meeting around 9:00 am. A colleague pulled me aside and whispered thus: “I want to tell you something but please don’t tell anyone for now.”

I thought he was going to tell me about a major breaking news story in the country. He saw the anxiety in my eyes, and then he went: “BEST don die!” I almost fell on the floor but thankfully I just staggered, took my seat and bowed my head on my desk speechless for almost three minutes.

By Kemo Cham

In Sierra Leone’s eastern Kailahun District, local authorities are sparing no efforts to keep the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) at bay, following the latest outbreak in Guinea.

Kailahun shares border with Guinea’s forest region – Nzerekore – from where the virus crossed into Sierra Leone in 2014, as part of what became the worst Ebola epidemic in history. The same region is home to the epicenter of the current outbreak – Gouecke.