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By Saio Marrah

The Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning,  Turad Senesie Ph.D has at the distribution of state lands to members of the Sierra Leone Commercial bike (Okada) riders Association and Union of Rickshaw (Kekeh) riders, who won  the state land raffle draw, promised that the next set of people to earn state lands are the Petty Traders.

Minister Senesie was speaking on Friday 16^th June at McCDonald in Western Rural District - the designated place for allocation of the plots of land to the raffle winners.

By Mabinty Kamara

Claims: The European Union Election Observation Mission to Sierra Leone is distributing pens and other memorabilia with hidden cameras. The target are chiefs, police and ECSL staff. 

Verdict: False

Methodology

A social media post which has been circulated on Whatsapp so many times is claiming that EU Election Observers are sharing pens with hidden cameras.

By Saio Marrah

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and the Media Reform Coordinating Group have condemned an attack on BBC Correspondent, Umaru Fofana by supporters of the main opposition party, All People’s Congress (APC) immediately after a press conference organized by the party.

The SLAJ press release spoke of offensive remarks directed towards his mother, persistent subjection of further indecent language and gestures, and physical threats.

By Saio Marrah

Save the Children International-Sierra Leone and partners have expressed concerns over what they described as child exploitation and abuse by politicians who involve children in their political activities in the ongoing 2023 elections campaign in the country.

Save the Children, Children’s Forum Network and the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), expressed these concerns at a press conference held at the Save the Children’s office in Freetown on 15^th June 2023.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Presidential Candidate and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara has said they would want an independent internationally accredited team of electoral commissioners to conduct the election if the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) do not meet their demands.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

In order to ensure  peaceful, credible, and transparent elections in the country, a group of Civil Society Organization (CSO) experts and media practitioners named Democracy Network (DEMNET) Sierra Leone has called on the two main political parties, the All Peoples  Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) to be seen  mobilizing agents and preaching peace.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Country Director of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy Rev.Alusine Diamond-Suma has said that gender equality is a prerequisite for human rights, democracy, and social justice, adding that it is beneficial to society.

Suma was speaking at a training held on the 14^th June 2023 for members of Sierra Leone Press Gallery (SLPPG) on gender-sensitive reporting. He stated that human rights statutes ban all forms of discrimination on the grounds of gender.