By: Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah
The Sierra Leone Government has deployed 110 new doctors across the country, which has had a paucity of medics especially in the provinces. Fifty of them were sent to the countryside and the remaining 50 in and around Freetown.
Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Austin Demby said the number of doctors – who will be doing their houseman-ship for about two years – represented a 20 per cent increase in the current number of doctors in public service.
By Nasratu Kargbo
President Julius Maada Bio has expressed the government’s wish and determination to drastically reduce hunger in the country and make the country food self-sufficient. He made this statement at the State Opening of the Sixth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone on the 3rd of August 2023.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
A helicopter with two crew members, one British and the other South African, has crash landed at Mashehwureh Village, a suburb some 15 miles away from Central Waterloo.
The crew members were rescued by the Local Unit Commander (LUC), Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Ibrahim M. Sama on the 5th August, 2023 after receiving intelligence of the crashed helicopter.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Proprietor and Principal of Education Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired Thomas Alieu has expressed frustration over what he described as repeated thievery of the school’s property.
Speaking to Politico on the 4th of August 2023, Alieu highlighted the challenges they face as an institution, saying: “Thieves always invade our place and take away our property including machines, hence my cry for help for parimeter fence”.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
After the spike in resignations, the Board of the Society for Radio Democracy 98.1 FM has allayed the fears of the public and assured everyone that there is no crisis at the broadcaster.
The Board made this clarification in a press statement dated 5th August, 2023 after the resignations of some senior staff of the institution made public.
The Security Sector of Sierra Leone and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on 1st August 2023 converged in Freetown to dialogue in a bid to proffer enduring solutions to the associated problems that they conceived are an affront to the peace and stability of the country.
The Dialogue which was organised by CSO Fambul Tok in collaboration with the Security Sector attracted Security Chiefs from the Office of National Security (ONS), the Police, and Military and representatives of various CSOs in Sierra Leone.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
Out of the many Police personnel that took the African Union/ United Nations Assessment test, 65 female police officers from a total number of 207 (two hundred and seven) Police personnel have so far passed the exercise.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
