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By Nasratu Kargbo

Kono District, according to the Rainbo Initiative, is said to have recorded the highest report of physical assault in 2022 among six District centres of Sierra Leone.

Speaking at the launch of the Rainbo Initiative’s Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) Survivors’ Data 2022 on the 5^th April 2023, Executive Director of Rainbo Initiative Daniel Kettor explained that 65% of people that reported physical assault to them were from Kono.

By Alpha Abu

The Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) is busy completing the setting of a Situation Room that will be ready ahead of the country’s General Elections in June this year.

A team from the African Union (AU) based in Ethiopia is in the country with equipment and experts to support the establishing of the structure at the Lamina Sankoh Street Freetown headquarters of the commission. Members of staff assigned to the centre are being trained on how to run it.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Local Council Association of Sierra Leone (LOCASO) with support from donor partners has conducted a day’s training for women hoping to run in the local council election in the Eastern region.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

As a way of charity to the needy during the Holy Month of Ramadan,  members of Empirex, a social club  at the University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH) have supported 100 (one hundred) less privileged with food stuff.

The recipients were given rice, onions, tomato tins, and other cooking condiments.

The donation was done along Kissy Road on Friday 14^th April, 2023.

By Ruth Yeabu Sesay

Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr Austin Demby has confirmed the World Health Organization (WHO) rating of Sierra Leone as the best performer in the reduction of maternal mortality rate in Africa.  He stated this during a press conference at Youyi Building.

  He said the ministry is now working on a rethink of transformative health care in Sierra Leone which focuses on patient -care since everyone around the world now looks up to malaria, tuberculosis  and  vaccination programmes.

By Nasratu Kargbo

In this year’s Citizens Manifesto, citizens have demanded that police are taken off the streets and replaced with street lights; citizens expect that the next administration tackles this to reduce the level of corruption.

A presentation on the 13^th of April 2023 at the launch of the 2023 Citizens’ Manifesto by members of the steering committee from various districts stressed that police officers be taken off the street.  

By Alpha Abu

The National Unity and Reconciliation Party (NURP) also known as

“Cut Across” has held its National Delegates Conference, with women assuming key executive positions in the party.

The two-day event held at Negus Nagas Complex at Grafton outside Freetown saw youthful Christiana Gbondo endorsed as Secretary-General of the party. Long-serving Secretary-General Pastor Tamba Gbekie and another challenger decided to step down in favour of Christiana.