By Kemo Cham
A radio presenter in Koidu Town in Sierra Leone’s eastern Kono District went into hiding last week in fear of being arrested over allegation of incitement.
Sahr Amadu Komba, Station Manager of the Eastern Radio in Koidu, said he was been pursued for a program he hosted which discussed the cause of a flooding that left the small diamond-rich town isolated and cut off from the main highway that linked it to the capital Freetown.
A police officer trying to ward off people scrambling over rotten chicken
By Mustapha Sesay
The Freetown City Council has announced plans to dump two more containers of imported chickens declared as unfit for human consumption.
By Prince Musa in Kenema
Health authorities in Kenema District say 11 nurses quarantined over fears of infection with the Lassa Fever virus have shown no symptom of the disease after seven days.
The isolated nurses work at the Kenema Government Hospital where they came in contact with a woman who later died from the hemorrhagic fever disease.
Lassa Fever is a deadly viral disease with symptoms like those of Ebola. Kenema and its surrounding districts are thought to be endemic to the virus which is carried by a certain species of rats.
Dilapidated Moyamba generator
By Mustapha Sesay
Residents of Moyamba Township would have to wait little longer in order to benefit from the rural electrification project initiated by the Ministry of Energy.
Samuel Bangura and Minister Maligi, during a pre-commissioning ceremony earlier in Makeni
By Prince Musa in Kenema
By Kemo Cham
The Sierra Leone government has declared "wanted" a freelance Canadian journalist living and working in the country. The authorities say Nina Devries is wanted over a report for the Qatar-based television network, Al Jazeera, which they deemed as false.
Officials at the Ministry of Information and Communication said last week that Nina was being sought for her report on freedom of expression in the country in which she interviewed popular musician Emmerson Bockarie.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
