By James Tamba Lebbie
For the first time in its 45-year history the University of Sierra Leone has centralised and digitised its admission programme. This means that for the 2012/13 academic year the University Registry will handle the application process of all applicants wishing to enrol at the university.
IMC chairman Rod Mac-Johnson has said in Freetown that while there is freedom for people to express their collective and individual views, the media has not effectively played its part in creating the right environment for such views to be focused and constructive in the national development debate.
Tugboats working for the iron ore miner in Sierra Leone, London Mining rescued 11 people from rough seas after their canoe sank off the Freetown harbour at about 8pm on 22 June.
Hospital and Red Cross sources have confirmed the death of six people in Freetown after a heavy downpour of rain lasting over 30 hours.
Four of them, including two children, were killed in the early hours of this morning after a huge boulder rolled at Congo Town in the west of Freetown and crushed them in their zinc house.
A child and a teenager were killed at New England after a mudslide.
The spokesman of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Major Samuel Moody, has told Politico that the deployment of Sierra Leonean peacekeepers to war-torn Somalia will start in late August at the earliest with a support group that will include the engineer regiment.
The regiment will identify locations for the main body of peacekeepers to deploy in as well as administration buildings and shelter.
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.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
