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By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay 

The new head of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), Ady Maculey, has on Monday ended a familiarization tour in the Eastern district of Kono.

This visit to Kono is the first since Commissioner Macauley took office some few months ago. During the tour he visited Paramount Chiefs and Police officers and addressed all of them on the importance of a corrupt-free society.

By Mabinty M Kamara 

Last week’s violence in Kenema has once again brought to the fore the persistent discourse on political violence within the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP).

By Mabinty Magdalene Kamara

A good numberof students of the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM)have gone on the rampage after being sent out of examination halls.

Munda Rogers, the public relations officer of the University of Sierra Leone, told POLITICO that the students’ rejection from taking the examinationyesterday was because they failed to comply with the university regulation which registration is a part of.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Some concerned youths in Kono, in the eastern diamond rich district of Sierra Leone, have threatened to sustain massive street protests over delay in road works in that part of the country.

The youngsters, who blamed the Sierra Leone Road Authority (SLRA) for the situation, last week staged a ‘warning shot’ signaling their plans to protest the decision to suspend works by the Guinean construction company Guicopress.

By Mustapha Sesay 

A research conducted by the Centre for Coordination of Youth Activities (CCYA), Search for Common Ground (SFCG) and Society for Learning and Yearning for Equal Opportunities (SLYEO) has ranked Pujehun District as the worst in terms of child exploitation.

Daddy George, the deceased

By Umaru Fofana
Police in eastern Sierra Leone have banned indefinitely all political activity in the regional headquarters of Kenema, a day after an opposition SLPP supporter was stabbed to death in an apparent intra-party dispute.

By Umaru Fofana

Guinea has dismissed statements by the Sierra Leone police and maritime authorities about a class at sea between the two countries’ navies.

Guinean government spokesman, Damantang Albert Camara says no one was arrested during the Monday morning incident in which the two sides were said to have exchanged fire.