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By Saio Marrah

A 58-year-old man has admitted killing one Isha Saidu Hughes, his kid sister before Magistrate Sahr Kekura at Ross Road on Tuesday 22^nd August 2023.

Sulaiman Conteh asked for forgiveness from his family members saying that what he did was wrong also pleaded for mercy from the magistrate, noting that the allegations levied against him are true but that he only used a hammer and a kitchen knife to commit the murder contrary to the police statement that he also used a machete.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

In his first official engagement with Diplomats resident in Sierra Leone, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Timothy Musa Kabba has called for coordination and cooperation between the government and the international community.

The minister made this statement in an interactive engagement with members of the diplomatic community in a press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tower Hill, Freetown.

By Politico Staff Writer

Deputy Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission Sierra Leone (ACC) Augustine Foday Ngobie says stakeholders have critical roles to play in the implementation of the Productive Social Safety Net and Youth Employment (PSSNYE) scheme which is worth forty million US Dollars and warned against undermining it.

By Saio Marrah

Abubakar Mansaray, a resident of a place called Small Country at Mabureh community in the general area of Waterloo has appeared before a Magistrate in Freetown for allegedly killing one Aminata Kamara.

The 49-year-old accused, identified as a beggar, appeared before Magistrate Sahr Kekura at Ross Road Monday 21^st August 2023, accused of committing the offence on December 24 2002 in the same community.

Mansaray, a single-leg amputee, is not represented by a lawyer.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Physician Len Gordon-Harris of Cancer UK Salone Charity says recorded cancer deaths in Sierra Leone as per the GLOBOCAN’s data for 2020 amounted 3,389. Of that number 2,000 were women, whilst 1,389 were men.

Dr. Gordon-Harris gave the figures at a press conference in Freetown held by the Masonic District Lodge of Sierra Leone and the Gambia during receipt of donation towards Prostate Cancer, on 16 August.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

In an effort to celebrate the gains made in increasing the number of female representation in governance across all sectors, Sierra Leone’s First Lady Fatima Bio is set to celebrate with all the women in elected and appointive positions after the just concluded general elections.

By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya

The Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Association of Persons with Albinism, Mohamed Osman Kamara, has expressed concern at what he said are the prejudices persons with albinism face in state -owned institutions in the country and want their protection under law.

Speaking in an interview on Thursday 18^th of August 2023, Kamara said that they are facing discrimination in their everyday life.