By Crispina Cummings
As the debate on the Appropriation Act 2012 continues, Members of Parliament on Tuesday continued to make different interventions on different aspects of the 2013 budget.
Journalists trained on maternal, newborn health
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A three-day training to educate journalists on how to report maternal and newborn health started yesterday at the Kona Lodge in Freetown.
Organised by Evidence for Action (E4A), it is part of a five-year programme that will focus on improving maternal and newborn survival in six sub-Saharan countries, and is part of its “better evidence, improved advocacy and accountability to save lives”.
Paramount Chiefs ban child Bondo
By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
The head of the Bondo Society in Kenema District, Haja Massah Kaisamba has disclosed that of the ten chiefdoms they have visited nine Paramount Chiefs have signed a memoranda of understanding against under-aged circumcision into the Bondo Society.
They are Dama, Koya, Lower Bambara, Dodo, Tunkia, Simbaru, Niawa, Kandu Lekpeyema, and Langurama.
