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By Kemo Cham

Two Sierra Leonean filmmakers have been detained and face charges for producing a movie deemed offensive to the country's two largest ethnic groups, a police spokesman confirmed to Politico on Friday.

The movie, titled: ‘Tribal War: Mende vs Temne’, was produced by the Empire Movie Production which is based in Bo in the south of the country. The producer and the director of the controversial movie were detained about three days ago, according to sources familiar with the situation.

By Umaru Fofana

Police in Bo last night arrested the convicted war criminal and former Kamajor Director of War, Moinina Fofana exactly one year after he had been conditionally released from a Rwandan prison.

As we went to press he was being prepared to be taken to Freetown for detention at the facilities of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Assistant Inspector General of Police Mustapha Kamara told Politico that he was arrested around 7:00 PM last night “without resistance”.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

The International Women’s Day was celebrated globally on Tuesday 8 March but some civil society organisations have raised concerns about government’s commitment to meeting the needs of women.

They cited as proofs of their claims the deteriorating conditions of women in the district in general, as well as government’s indifference to their plight in terms of tackling domestic and other gender-based violence.

Moijueh Kaikai

By Crispina Taylor

Executive Director of the civil society Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) has described as positive President Koroma’s swift move to relieve two of his ministers over public misconduct caught on tape and circulated.

By Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara

Delays in payment of government subsidy have disrupted the operations of some schools which are adopting measures that have weighed down negatively on parents.

As a result of the effect of the Ebola outbreak, the government had volunteered to pay school fees for all school going pupils in the country to cushion the effect on parents.

Some heads of government and government-assisted schools said they were finding it very difficult to run their schools due to the delays.

A cross section of US leadership visitors alumni

Dozens of Sierra Leoneans who have visited the United States as guests of the State Department met on Saturday in Freetown to work towards registering themselves as a charity.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Ahead of the UN’s HIV/AIDS summit in New York this June, the United Nations Women (UNW) is canvassing support from different sectors to cooperate in the fight to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.