A two-day conference of land owners which closed yesterday in Freetown has challenged transparency in land acquisition and use in Sierra Leone, calling for effective environmental management of land, water and vegetation in lease areas to prevent destruction of resources.
Machete attacks on the increase
By Alpha Abu
People living in the extreme east end of the capital, Freetown are becoming increasingly alarmed at the spate of machete attacks on residents by robbers.
These attacks are concentrated in the highly populated Wellington community, with the police virtually incapable of stopping them.
Victims in most of the cases, described the robbers as young men wearing only boxers with no clothes, and apparently high on drugs. They carry out their attacks in a ruthless manner hardly imagined of any sane person.
Over visa fee increase, US, Sierra Leone in a tit-for-tat
The Governments of the United States and Sierra Leone have increased by $ 20 nonimmigrant visa fees for each other’s citizens wishing to visit each other’s country.
Effective Friday 13 April 2012, Americans and Sierra Leoneans will require to pay $ 160. A press release from the Sierra Leone mission in Washington DC says the increase is as a result of an announced increase made by the US embassy in Freetown, calling it “consistent with the principle of reciprocity which governs relations between countries on consular matters”.
‘...UDM NOT HERE TO WIN 2012...’ - Mohamed Bangura
By Alhaji Komba
Fresh from a successful party convention in the southern headquarter town of Bo, the newly-elected flag bearer of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) Mohamed Bangura has told Politico that “the first challenge” facing his movement is to establish “a third party” and so provide a clear alternative to the people of Sierra Leone. He said the “UDM is not here to win in 2012” but that they would “concentrate on winning many parliamentary and local council seats across the country”.
GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASE ON SHEARES MOSES WHITE PAPER
SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT
PRESS RELEASE
RE: GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER ON SHEARS-MOSES COMMISSION REPORT
Government White Paper on Sheares Moses Report
GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER ON THE SHEARS-MOSES COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO INCIDENTS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND INTOLERANCE OCCURING IN GENDEMA, FREETOWN AND KENEMA
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The Shears-Moses Commission of Inquiry into incidence of political violence and intolerance occurring in Gendema, Freetown and Kenema was established by His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President, by Constitutional Instrument No. 8 of 2009.
