By Mohamed Massaquoi
Landowners and casual workers of the agricultural company, Socfin have complained about the “manner in which we are being treated by Socfin in Malen chiefdom”.
Two drown in Kono again
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Two people, a 31-year old pregnant woman and a 14-year old boy, have drowned in non-operational mining pits at Down Ballop and Bakundu communities respectively in Koidu town, Kono district.
The apparently epileptic pregnant woman, FindaLebbie, drowned on 22 June while the boy, Mohamed BabahFofana, died the following day. This year alone police in the diamond mining district said they had recorded over 15 cases of drowning.
HRCSL ‘Go Live’ on case management
Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, HRCSL, with support from the UN development programmehas introduced its ‘Go Live’ on their case management system. The case management system is a web application for managing information about human rights violations and it is exclusively used through an internet browser.
Sierra Leone sacked Chief of Staff to jail
Dr Richard Konteh
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Sacked State House Chief of Staff of Sierra Leone has been sent to jail shortly after a magistrate court refused him bail in a 17-count charge involving him and two others.
5 years, Le 90 mln for NRA fugitive
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A High Court in Sierra Leone has slammed a 5-year jail term plus a Le 90 Million fine on a former National Revenue Authority staff, who was dragged to court by the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission on corruption charges.
Elizabeth King, 33, was indicted alongside 16 others by the anti graft agency in June of last year.
She stood a separate trial because she had run away when the indictments were announced, which led to a delay in her trial.
Sierra Leone bids for AfDB presidency
Samoura Kamara
Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Senegal has told the Ivorian ambassador in that country that their candidate for the presidency of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Samura Kamara “is the most qualified considering his credentials”.
Sierra Leone police, soldiers complain over poor housing
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
The chairman on the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Defence and National Security says soldiers and police officers have bitterly complained to them about "the poor accommodation” they live in barracks across the country. He says they also complained over their conditions of service.
