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By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone is among countries with the lowest rates of handwashing, according to the UN agency Unicef.

Unicef said despite the proven benefits associated with handwashing with soap to child health, and its importance in reducing the transmission of deadly diseases, very small amount of people observe the practice in many countries.

Sub – Saharan Africa has the lowest rates among the rest of the world.

By Kemo Cham

Nine people have been indicted by the Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for various offences, the Commission has said in a statement on Wednesday.

The accused who have been charged to the High Court of Sierra Leone include a school principal and employees of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA).

The ACC did not give specifics about their offences.

Displaced children and women are in the majority at the stadium shelter

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

By Kemo Cham 

Because of their exclusion from national economic growth, rural areas in Sierra Leone languish in poverty, a new report has revealed.

The African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2015 shows that the country`s rural areas are seriously excluded from the national economy with a particularly high prevalence of poverty in mineral rich districts like Tonkolili, Moyamba and districts far away from the capital, Freetown.

By Kemo Cham

The United Nations Children agency Unicef has announced a project aimed at ensuring pregnant girls get education despite their condition.

The initiative which has the blessing of the government will target some 3000 pregnant teenage girls with the goal of providing them tuition fees and learning materials, as well as encouraging children who remained at home following the Ebola outbreak return to school.

By Crispina Taylor

Parliament on Tuesday deferred a debate on a report by the Committee on Local Government and Rural Development due to the absence of representatives of the relevant government departments.

The report had been laid in parliament on 17^th February this year.

It`s the outcome of oversight visits by the parliamentary committee to local councils in the headquarter towns in the eastern and southern districts of the country. The committee also visited Koinadugu, Portloko, and Kambia districts in the north.

By Kemo Cham

Less than two weeks after reports of the commencement of trial of a Chinese made Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone, the United States pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has said it had started a similar study.