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By Politico staff writer

Outgoing United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone, David Reimer says President Julius Maada Bio is the President of Sierra Leone but called for dialogue between the Government and the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) and other parties so that the country can move forward.

Speaking during a radio interview in Freetown on Wednesday 16^th August, the ambassador said they would like to see the government dialogue with civil society and political parties.

By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya

In reaction to growing mob justice particularly in the Western Area, the Sierra Leone Police have strongly condemned the practice in a public notice issued on the 16th of August, 2023.

According to the notice, the violent acts ‘in the guise of exercising justice’ culminate in what the Police say are extra-judicial killings of suspected thieves or miscreants in some local communities which they view as homicidal and a serious miscarriage of justice.

By Alpha Abu

The regional bloc ECOWAS has affirmed its use of force option, to reverse the coup in Niger, is still on the cards, following a meeting of West African Military Chiefs in Ghana, on Thursday, to discuss the crisis.

Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah- the organisation’s Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security in a BBC interview asserted the resolve of ECOWAS to intervene militarily in a bid to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum.

By Saio Marrah

A Police witness has identified in court the clothes of slain Fourah Bay College Lecturer, Kabba Santigie Bangura whose body was found in a shallow grave in a shrine-like room inside the house of a herbalist at Mile Four, just outside Waterloo in the Western Rural District.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Pujehun District Member of Parliament Abu Kemokai Children in has appealed to the government and stakeholders concerned to procure boats for children commuting to and from school.

Kemokai who was on the 16^th of August 2023 debating on the Presidential speech said: “I want to report to this house and draw the attention of the Ministry that for our children living in those riverine communities, they need boats to access their schools. I want to call on the Ministry to procure a boat for them.”

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

Civil Society actors and officials of Sierra Leones Small Arms Commission have called on all local gun manufacturers or Blacksmiths to ensure their products are registered in the Commission’s database.

The actors were speaking during an engagement with the blacksmiths on the 15^th of August 2023.  

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

In order to match growing entrepreneurship standards, the Minister of Youth Affairs, Mohamed ‘Orman’ Bangura has urged the youths of Sierra Leone to embrace agriculture which he said is the present and future of the country.

The minister was speaking at the Ministry of Information and Civic Education’s usual press briefing held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation’s conference hall at Tower Hill on the 15^th of August, 2023.