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Sorie Ndigi Dumbuya has taken over as the new Registrar of the University of Sierra Leone, replacing Edward Tamba Ngandi who has retired.

Dumbuya comes to the job at a time when the University says it’s charting a new beginning to improve the quality and relevance of its programs to the country’s development aspirations.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has engaged health workers in Makeni in the form of a sensitization meeting at its Makeni Office.

ACC Regional Manager, North, Patrick Sandi said in his welcome address that the engagement was an educational and preventive drive aimed at addressing corruption issues in a bid to ensure effective and transparent health care service delivery.

The ACC has engaged the Paramount Chief and chiefdom authorities of Dama Chiefdom, Kenema District as part of its public education campaign aimed at raising public awareness on the implications of corruption and to soliciting public support in the fight against corrupt practices.

 A midnight fishing expedition has resulted in a fatal accident at the high seas, leaving two people dead when a huge cargo vessel hit and left the small artisanal fishing boat in pieces.

Confirming the news, head of the joint maritime committee Commander Sallieu Kanu said the six survivors have been taken to Connaught hospital. Their identities and those of the dead were not known as at press time.

 By James Tamba Lebbie

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health, Zainab Hawa Bangura as his Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. She succeeds Sweden’s Margot Wallström who was appointed in February 2010.

Mrs Bangura has also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and has a history of civil society activism. He also worked for the UN Mission in Liberia in the civil affairs department. She is the first and so far only woman to run for President in Sierra Leone when she did in 1996

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Usually reliable sources have intimated Politico that Supreme Court Judge, Justice Tolla Thompson is to become the head of the Political Parties' Registration Commission.

He succeeds Justice Samuel Ademusu who died in April and was buried in Nigeria as he had willed.