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By Hassan I Conteh

Police authorities have revealed that last year the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), through its Complaint Discipline and Internal Investigations Department (CDIID), documented a total of 1, 118 cases nationwide, among them sexual harassment and discrimination.

By Umaru Fofana

Months after running roughshod over each other government and private school owners held a crunch meeting yesterday on the invitation of the National Education Board.

Some school proprietors were asked to refund parents some of the fees paid them.

It followed disagreements emanating largely from how the schools should operate after losing grounds due to the Ebola outbreak that led to their closure for several months.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

For over four months now there have been no magistrate court sitting in Pujehun, occasioning in a backlog of cases in the southern district of the country.

While there are growing concerns and frustration among activists and especially victims of sexual violence, a situation that has become worrying in the district, the police have confirmed that the crime rate has generally increased as a result of the absence of the court as a redress mechanism.

By Crispina Taylor

The slow pace of the justice system is encouraging a rise in sexual and gender-based violence in the western rural district, an activist has warned.

Yeama Baba Conteh, the head of Woman for Woman, a community-based organization in Waterloo which propagates justice for abused women and girls, told Politico that multitude of cases of sexual and gender-based violence were packed at the High Court in Freetown without any hope that a judge would address them.

By Tanu Jalloh

The Criminal Investigations Department of the police yesterday called in the special adviser to President Ernest Bai Koroma and questioned him on a deal to dispose of waste materials from Lebanon into Sierra Leone.

Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, who was briefly interrogated inside the crime office at their headquarters on Pademba Road for his role in thewaste scandal, was later released to state house, according to a police source.

By Kemo Cham

The election of a new Burkina Faso government and the detention of Guinea's ex-Junta leader may hold promise for the case against another ex-Junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Kamara, said a UN official.

Kamara is part of about half a dozen people so far indicted for crimes relating to the infamous massacre of over a hundred anti coup Guinean protesters in 2009.

By SeptimusSenessie in Kono

About three weeks after the controversial by-elections in Nimiyama Chiefdom in the Kono district, a cloud of tension continues to hang on the chiefdom amidst allegations of persecution of opposition supporters.