By Mustapha Sesay
Director in the office of national security, Rtd. Brig. Mustapha Kawuta Dumbuya, has expressed delight in a partnership between the mass media and the security sector formed to foster national development.
He told a one-day symposium organized by the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies Chapter 29 (ACSS) at IMATT in Freetown that the effort was meant to understand the “goodwill and effective support of the mass media in Sierra Leone”.
Sierra Leone's two most frequent international airlines will resume flight to the country today after an indefinite cancellation following the downgrading of the country's airport by the UN civil aviation regulator.
Caulker, former SLIEPA boss
The head of the Sierra Leone's Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) has been sacked.
Patrick Caulker's dismissal yesterday followed a three-hour long meeting of the Board of the country's official agency to assist and inform investment and exporters.
Former Captain of the Sierra Leone national football team, Leone Stars was arrested and questioned for more than seven hours yesterday by police in Freetown. Mohamed Kallon was released on a Le 50 million bail bond over an incident at the Football Academy at Kingtom on Friday in which, he alleged, that the president of the Sierra Leone Football Association, Isha Johansen slapped him following an argument.
By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
Seven Paramount Chiefs from the three provincial regions of Sierra Leone last week met in Blama in Small Bo Chiefdom, Kenema District to brief the people on their findings on allegations made by the Paramount Chief of Langurama Prince Mambu Pewa that his colleague chief of Small Bo Dhaffie Benya V attempted to kill him with a charm.
The West Africa Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) has expressed concern over the "socio-political instability in the region".
Following a Strategic Meeting last week in Dakar, Senegal the activists analyzed the security situation in Mali, Benin, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso and Nigeria.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
