By Mabinty M. Kamara
Seven experts from the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) are currently in the country on an arms and ammunition assessment mission.
The purpose of the assessment, according to officials, is to ensure the security of the state by ensuring the effective management of arms and ammunitions.
By Steven Ngaujah
Three people were wounded and at least seven houses burnt down in a communal violence in Kono District.
The incident which is under investigation by the Police was the result of a dispute over a piece of land between the people of Taama and Nyandeama villages.
According to residents of Nyandeama, youths of the neighboring village of Taama, armed with cutlasses, guns, sticks and other crude weapons, attacked their village in the morning hours of August 9, assaulting the inhabitants and destroying their houses.
By Mohamed T. Massaquoi
The chief of Police at the Barri Chiefdom Police Station in Potoru in Pujehun District has been accused of conniving with an alleged criminal to defraud scores of local people.
The alleged fraudster, who is known only by the name ‘Hassan’, reportedly requested monies totaling Le27million from 10 people with the promises of multiplying the amount contributed by each individual.
By Hajaratu Kalokoh
Members of Fourah Bay College Junior Staff Association held a brief protest at the college’s campus on Monday. The staff expressed dissatisfaction over the delay of their salary and leave allowance.
The staff attempted to close one of the major buildings on the campus in a bid to get attention from the college authorities regarding their discontent. Members of the association say they have not been paid for two months and their leave allowance have been reduced by ‘strange’ taxes.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Dr. Charles Silver, Executive Chairman of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), has called on the Bio Administration to own up to its short falls and stop blaming others for them.
Silver said politics is all about proffering solutions and not to blame others for causing the problems one inherits.
“You have to really accept your fault. You have to accept that this is the case. But the question is, have you accepted your faults? We are almost always managing crisis. We don’t project into the future,” he said.
By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
Former Minister of Information and Communication (MIC), Mohamed Bangura has denied any knowledge of requesting or receiving per diem payments up to the sum of US$194,363.12 from the International Gateway Fund which is handled by the National Telecommunication Communication (NATCOM).
By Kemo Cham
Ten young Sierra Leonean programmers have won a Le38million award to develop a mobile payment solution that may hold the answer to some of the problems facing the local public transportation system.
The team of young programmers were declared winners for their idea at the just concluded Urban Mobility Hackathon organized by the technology firm, Sensi Hub, in collaboration with government agencies in the transportation sector, including the Ministry of Transport and Aviation and Sierra Leone Road Transport Corporation (SLRTC).
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
