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By Bampia James Bundu  

Minister of finance and economic development, Dr. Keifala Marah, has revealed that World Bank recently approved US$7million support to the government of Sierra Leone for social safety scheme.

Addressing journalists at the ministry’s conference room, the minister said the National Commission Social Action, NaCSA, would be in charge to disburse the funds to the poor and less privileged old people in four districts across the country.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A councillor of Ward 63 in Koidu has accused Paramount Chief Paul Garber Saquee V of Tankoro Chiefdom of "illegally selling" 30 metres of land to OCTEA Ltd "without consulting the chiefdom council."

Councillor Kai Lawrence Mbayo alleged that the recent extension of OCTEA’s mining concession by 30 metres to the centre of Tankoro Big Market came some four years after the chief also “illegally and  singularly added a 830-metre piece of land to the concession areas of the company.”

Sierra Leone's foreign minister, Dr Samoura MW Kamara on Monday 5 May, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the United Arab Emirates, Dr. Anwar Mohammed Gargash to discuss bilateral issues relating to the excellent relations existing between their two countries. The meeting was held in the presence of Abdulah Bin Abood Alnaqbi, Deputy of the Department of Africa Affairs.

John Benjamin

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

The former National Chairman and Leader of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party, John Oponjo Benjamin (JOB) has declared to run for president in 2017.

The start of the rainy season has been marked by a tragedy in Freetown when five people were killed by a boulder in the densely populated part of Gray Bush in the west of Freetown.

It followed a heavy downpour of rain on Sunday morning which rolled down the huge rock crushing people inside the house of adjoining rooms.

People in the neighbourhood were in shock, and wailed as the fourth body was brought out of the rubble while the head of the fifth could be seen as efforts were still ongoing to bring it out in the poor residential neighbourhood.

Joseph Kamara, ACC Boss

By Tilly Barrie

Four men fined Le 500 million each by the Anti-Corruption Commission in a controversial out-of-court settlement in 2012 are yet to pay up, according to the latest Auditor General's report.

Accident vehicle, Photo by Stanley Bangura Jr

The Police Local Unit Commander in Makeni has confirmed the death of 11 people in a gruesome road accident which took place yesterday after a truck carrying mangoes and traders plunged into a narrow bridge on the Gbendembu-Makeni road.