By Septimus Senessie in Kono.
Paramount chiefs and their section chiefs from almost all 14 chiefdoms of Kono District have committed themselves to upholding and promoting the rights of women to land and inheritance in their chiefdoms.
MPs discuss legalisation of partial abortion
By Crispina Cummings
IPAS, an organisation working on women’s health and reproductive rights last week held a workshop with parliamentarians to discuss safe abortion before the tabling of a bill that will allow for qualified abortion. The bill will seek to allow for the termination of pregnancy if it was caused by rape, incest, or if the woman’s life is in danger by the pregnancy.
Nimikor Chiefdom bags surface rent
P.C. Aiah Denton Bona Foamansa III displaying a ceremonial cheque presented by Nimini Mining Limited.
By James Tamba Lebbie
First music video inside Freetown female prison
The first ever music video was filmed inside the new Freetown Female Prison last week to mark 16 days of activism against violence against women. According to a press release, one of Sierra Leone’s leading female hip hop artists, Star Zee, partnered with civil society organisation, AdvocAid, "to record a song educating women about their legal rights".
Second Kono school clocks 50 next year
By Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara
The Archbishop of Freetown, Edward Tamba Charles says the old students of Yengema Secondary School in Kono district must ensure the bell rings "loudly and proudly" as the school turns 50 years on 7 December 2014. The school is the second to turn 50 in the district after Jaiama Secondary School achieved the feat in 2010.
He made this pronouncement at a news conference at Santanno House in Freetown last week as he read out from a letter written by the Diaspora wing of the school.
Sierra Leone validates disaster response policy
By Kenneth Thompson
With help from the UN Development Programme, the Office for National Security (ONS) through its National Disaster Risk Management Office has validated the National Policy on Disaster Management.
The Dean of community health sciences at Njala University said the policy document incorporated in detail all the key components of disaster risk management including "preparedness, prevention and mitigation, and recovery and rehabilitation".
Koroma attends Mandela funeral
President Koroma signing the Mandela book of condolence at the RSA honorary consulate in Freetown
By Umaru Fofana
