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By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The President of the Sierra Leone- Australia Alumni Association, Usman Conteh, has urged the government of Sierra Leone to engage with their Australian counterparts to resume their annual scholarship program.

Conteh made this appeal during the launch of the association at the Miatta Conference Hall last Thursday.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

The Acting Mayor of Koidu City, Aiah Bartholomew Baima Komba, is at loggerheads with civil society organizations after labeling them as evil.

Councilor Komba, who called civil society groups as “evil society”, accused them of being responsible for all the violence that’s occuring in Kono district. He was speaking over the week end [Sunday 26 June] on the issue of the controversial mining at the Congo Bridge in Koidu.

By Mabinty M Kamara

The husband of a woman allegedly killed by stray police bullet is demanding justice.

Abdul Salam Bangura’s late wife, Fatmata Jarret Bangura, died after a bullet hit her during clashes between police and locals in Tombo in May this year. The incident was sparked by a riot between the ‘Orjeh’ society and the Muslim community on May 21 in Tombo in the Western Area Rural District.

A farm land under cultivation by Socfin Agricultural Company in Malen Chiefdom, southern Sierra Leone

By Mustapha Sesay

By Kemo Cham

The Ministry of Health has announced the end of mandatory swabbing of all dead bodies, a policy introduced at the height of the Ebola epidemic.

The announcement on Tuesday marked the end of about eight months of intense surveillance since Sierra Leone was first declared free of the Ebola virus transmission by the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 17, 2015.

Nigerian police have arrested eleven people suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of Sierra Leone’s Deputy High Commissioner, reports from Abuja indicated on Tuesday.

The suspects were presented to the public on Tuesday, reported the daily Punch newspaper in Abuja.

Maj-Gen. Alfred Claude Nelson-Williams was kidnapped on July 1 and he was released five days after in a rather surprise development. On Monday the former head of the Sierra Leone Army was officially presented to President Ernest Bai Koroma at State House.

By Prince Musa in Kenema

Nineteen people in Kenema District were sentenced yesterday by Magistrate Alhaji Sulaiman Koroma for various traffic offences. They included drivers, commercial and private motorbike riders and passengers.

The charges ranged from riding without a protective headgear or crash helmet, a seatbelt or a license.

All 19 pleaded guilty to the various charges and pleaded for mercy.

However Magistrate Koroma decided to sentence them to three months in prison or pay a fine ranging from Le 200,000 to Le 600,000.