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By Kemo Cham 

The Sierra Leone government will do everything to get back its diplomat kidnapped in Nigeria, a spokesman has said.

Deputy High Commissioner Major General Claude Nelson Williams was reportedly kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna on Friday.

Agibu Jalloh, Outreach Coordinator at the Office of Government Spokesman in the Ministry of Information, told Politico that the government were already in touch with their Nigerian counterparts who he said had promised to get back the kidnapped official and his driver safely.

stray dogs on Lumley beach

By Umaru Fofana

A campaign to eradicate rabies in Sierra Leone starts in Freetown on Monday 4 July.

Figures at the ministry of agriculture, which deals with animal health, say some 500 people die of rabies in the country every year.

By Mustapha Sesay

The World Bank has approved over US$ 45 million as loan for two projects aimed at supporting and strengthening service delivery in Sierra Leone’s health sector.

The projects will be co-financed by the World Bank and the International Development Association with the Bank providing the biggest chunk under a credit agreement with the government of Sierra Leone.

The projects will look at challenges that had weakened the health sector before and after the devastating Ebola outbreak in the country in 2014 - 2015.

Paramount Chief Bai Bairoh Mabolleh Anshenni III says ADDAX Bioenergy is in “a limbo” and that the potential new buyers say they will lay off the entire workforce.

One of the host Paramount Chiefs of ADDAX’s vast swathe of sugarcane farmland was speaking in Makeni at the launch of a monitoring report on the Swiss company put together by the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to food (SiLNoRF).

His statement comes in the wake of Addax announcing that it would lay off over one thousand workers at the end of June.

By Kemo Cham

A solar power project in Bo is among three projects selected as winners in a prestigious renewable energy development competition in London, last week.

The Africa Growth and Energy Solution (AGES) PLC, which is developing a 25mw solar project in the southern district of Sierra Leone, will share a US$7m-prize money with two other projects from Nigeria and Madagascar. The three projects were selected from among nearly 100 entries in the competition organized by Access Power, under its Access Co-Development Facility (ACF) prize.

Jesmed Suma

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

A new political movement aspiring for a political party status has complained the delay in confirming its registration.

The seven-member verification committee of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) approved by President Ernest Koroma seems on the brink of collapse. This, after the Football Stakeholders, a renegade group opposed to the administration of SLFA president Isha Johansen, threatened to withdraw their members from the committee over the weekend.